"All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things."
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"Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung."
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"Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know."
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"All is flux; nothing stays still."
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"Character is fate. (Destiny)."
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"War is the father of all things."
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"What was scattered, gathers. What was gathered, blows away"
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"Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change."
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"Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know."
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"There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts."
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"There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares."
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"The people must fight for their laws as for their walls."
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"This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures."
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"Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one"
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"The fairest harmony springs from discord."
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"Man is on earth as in an egg."
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"To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish."
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"Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive."
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"To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right."
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"A blow to the head will confuse a man's thinking, a blow to the foot has no such effect, this cannot be the result of an immaterial soul."
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