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Fools -- for their thoughts are not well-considered who suppose that not-being exists or that anything dies and is wholly annihilated.

νήπιοι· οὐ γάρ σφιν δολιχόφρονές εἰσι μέριμναι,
οἵ δὴ γίγνεσθαι πάρος οὐκ ἐὸν ἐλπίζουσιν
ἤ τι καταθνήισκειν τε καὶ ἐξόλλυσθαι ἁπάντηι.

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

But what is lawful for all extends across wide-ruling aether and, without cease, through endless sunshine.

Nothing of the All is either empty or superfluous.

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

From such honor and such a height of fortune am I, thus fallen to earth, cast down amongst mortals.

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