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Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned. -- Empedocles
[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground. -- Empedocles
Each man believes only his experience. -- Empedocles
God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere. -- Empedocles
No mortal thing has a beginning, nor does it end in death and obliteration; there is only a mixing and then separating of what was mixed, but by mortal men these processes are named "beginnings. -- Empedocles
At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them apart. -- Empedocles
Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods. -- Empedocles
Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. -- Empedocles
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. -- Empedocles
It was not the mixture, O men, of blood and breath that made the beginning and substance of your souls, though your earthborn and mortal body is framed of those things. But your soul has come hither from another place. -- Empedocles
Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain. -- Empedocles
There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things. -- Empedocles
For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea. -- Empedocles
The sea is the sweat of the earth. -- Empedocles
Earth's sweat, the sea. -- Empedocles
Many fires burn below the surface. -- Empedocles
What is right may properly be uttered even twice. -- Empedocles
None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been. -- Empedocles
What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky. -- Empedocles