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

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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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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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Origin Rotation Stone Thrown
It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

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It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

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Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
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Glimpse See
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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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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Large Small
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

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The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
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The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

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The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
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Fiery Large Stone
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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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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Infinite Mindset
All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.
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Infinite Small
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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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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The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
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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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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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Mindset
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
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Word
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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Portion Position
The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.

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The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
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Similar
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.
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Large Position Small
The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

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The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
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It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

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