As it has long been and shall be, not ever, I think, will u… - Empedocles

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As it has long been and shall be, not ever, I think, will unfathomable time be emptied of either.

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Empedocles (c. 490 BC – c. 430 BC) was a poet, statesman, and pre-Socratic philosopher from the Greek colony of Agrigentum in Sicily. Two of his philosophical verse texts, On Nature and Purifications, survived antiquity in fragmentary form; these fragments comprise the only works considered to be of genuine Empedoclean authorship.

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Native Name: Ἐμπεδοκλῆς

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Hear first the four roots of all things: shining Zeus, life-bringing Hera, Aidoneus, and Nestis, who wets with tears the mortal wellspring.

For already, sometime, I have been a boy and a girl, a shrub, a bird, and a silent fish in the sea.

With deep roots Ether plunged into earth.

As it has long been and shall be, not ever, I think, will unfathomable time be emptied of either. - Empedocles

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