Empedocles quotes

The earth's sweat, the sea. (Empedocles)
The sea is the sweat of the earth.
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The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
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The sight of both [eyes] becomes one.
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For already, sometime, I have been a boy and a girl, a shrub, a bird, and a silent fish in the sea.
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From such honor and such a height of fortune am I, thus fallen to earth, cast down amongst mortals.
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And I will tell you something else: there is no birth of all mortal things, nor any end in wretched death, but only a mixing and dissolution of mixtures; 'birth' is so called on the part of mankind.
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Fools -- for their thoughts are not well-considered who suppose that not-being exists or that anything dies and is wholly annihilated.
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Nothing of the All is either empty or superfluous.
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As it has long been and shall be, not ever, I think, will unfathomable time be emptied of either.
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What needs [saying] is worth saying twice. (Empedocles)
For one by one did quake the limbs of God.
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But what is lawful for all extends across wide-ruling aether and, without cease, through endless sunshine.
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Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
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Hear first the four roots of all things: shining Zeus, life-bringing Hera, Aidoneus, and Nestis, who wets with tears the mortal wellspring.
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Fortunate is he who has acquired a wealth of divine understanding, but wretched the one whose interest lies in shadowy conjectures about divinities.
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I shall speak twice over. As upon a time One came to be alone out of many, so at another time it divided to be many out of One: fire and water and earth and the limitless vault of air, and wretched Strife apart from these, in equal measure to everything, and Love among them, equal in length and breadth.
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Far from the Blest; such is the path I tread.
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He must for seasons thrice ten thousand roam.
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I too a wanderer and exile from heaven.
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With deep roots Ether plunged into earth. (Empedocles)
Fast from vice.
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