The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Empedocles

[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.

Empedocles

Earth's sweat, the sea.

Empedocles

Many fires burn below the surface.

Empedocles

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

The sea is the sweat of the earth.

Empedocles

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

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

What is right may properly be uttered even twice.

Empedocles

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

None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.

Empedocles

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

Empedocles