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 particu….

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..

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods..

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 li….

Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led him to throw himself int….

The sea is the sweat of the earth..

There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully ….

Earth's sweat, the sea..

The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to bec….

None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been..

But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I s….

[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground..

Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned..

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..

What is right may properly be uttered even twice..

Many fires burn below the surface..

Each man believes only his experience..

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain..