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Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

Empedocles

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.
EMPEDOCLES

Bless Divine Wisdom Opinion Wealth
There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.
EMPEDOCLES

Attraction Each Other Force Hate Love Nature
What is right may properly be uttered even twice.
EMPEDOCLES

Proper Right
But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.
EMPEDOCLES

Air Fire Water
At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them apart.
EMPEDOCLES

Hatred Love Togetherness
What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.
EMPEDOCLES

Air Light Sky
Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.
EMPEDOCLES

Rain Science Wind
For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.
EMPEDOCLES

Born Boy Fish Maiden Plant Sea
[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.
EMPEDOCLES

Beneath Fire Ground Volcano
The sea is the sweat of the earth.
EMPEDOCLES

Earth One Liner Sea Sweat
Earth’s sweat, the sea.
EMPEDOCLES

Earth Science Sea Sweat
Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.
EMPEDOCLES

Disappear Glimpse Learn Life Smoke
None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.
EMPEDOCLES

God Man World
Many fires burn below the surface.
EMPEDOCLES

Burn Fire One Liner Surface
Each man believes only his experience.
EMPEDOCLES

Believe Experience Man One Liner

Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

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