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

Anaxagoras

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
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Lost Myself Value
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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Alone Infinite Mindset Rule
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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Equality Existence Greatness Portion Position
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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Important Mindset Observation Philosophy Science
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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Impossible Large 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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God Moon Natural Science
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
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Place Sight
The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.
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Place Similar Start
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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Force Origin Rotation Stars Stone Thrown
The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
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Fiery Large Stone Sun
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 sun provides the moon with its brightness.
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Bright Moon Sun
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
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Appearance Glimpse See
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
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Live Man Quiet Word
In everything, there is a share of everything.
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Nature Share
The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
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Heaven Investigation Life Purpose Sun

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