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.
Each man believes only his experience. - Empedocles
Each man believes only his experience.
- Empedocles
What is right may properly be uttered even twice. - Empedocles
What is right may properly be uttered even twice.
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… - 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 li…
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
Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.
Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned. - Empedocles
Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.
Many fires burn below the surface. - Empedocles
Many fires burn below the surface.
Earth's sweat, the sea. - Empedocles
Earth's sweat, the sea.
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
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.
None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been. - Empedocles
None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.
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