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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Anaxagoras

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  All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

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  The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.

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  The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

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  It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

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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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  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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  The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

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  In everything, there is a share of everything.

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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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  Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

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  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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  The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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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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  Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

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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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