Empedocles

"I am not a mortal being"

"Love all equally, and hate all equally"

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust"

"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught"

"There is in the world a thing called Beauty, and we who are made of the stars should know it"

"All things come into being not by chance, but by necessity"

"The limits of my language are the limits of my world"

"From all things there is a returning"

"Never can these things be such that fire alone shall make them, or water alone, or air, or earth"

"Come now and learn of medicines"

"Strife and love govern all things"

"A man may possess a great talent, but talent is not enough"

"This is the nature of immortal mortals and mortal immortals"

"Light and darkness alternate eternally"

"The ear is the passage of sound"

"All things have a divine spark within them"

"Time is the teacher of all things"

"In the clash of opposites lies the harmony of the universe"

"What is impious is to lie"

"Knowledge is power over circumstance"

"The heart of all things is love"

"To understand nature is to understand ourselves"

"Every element transforms into every other"

"Rejoice not in war, but in peace"

"The wise know themselves"

"Art imitates nature's harmonies"

"Bitter and sweet, hot and cold, are bound together"

"We must love one another or die"

"The eye perceives through fire"

"All things flow from the eternal struggle"