And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.
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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
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The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.
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Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.
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Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.
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Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.
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The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
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It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
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In everything, there is a share of everything.
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All other things have a portion of everything, but Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing but is all alone by itself.
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The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
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The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
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