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All things must in equity again decline into that whence they have their origin for they must give satisfaction and atonement for injustice each in the order of time.

— Anaximander

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There cannot be a single, simple body which is infinite, either, as some hold, one distinct from the elements, which they then derive from it, nor without this qualification.

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