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…nothing is stronger than true reality.

— Melissus of Samos

Τοῦ γὰρ ἐόντος ἀληθινοῦ κρεῖσσον οὐδέν.

Original text (Ancient Greek)

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So then it is eternal and infinite and one and all alike.

What was was ever, and ever shall be. For, if it had come into being, it needs must have been nothing before it came into being. Now, if it were nothing, in no wise could anything have arisen out of nothing.

Nor is anything empty: For what is empty is nothing. What is nothing cannot be. Nor does it move; for it has nowhere to betake itself to, but is full. For if there were aught empty, it would betake itself to the empty. But, since there is naught empty, it has nowhere to betake itself to.

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