Parmenides

"What is, is. What is not, is not."

"Being is; not-being is not."

"One should both say and think that Being is."

"How could what is perish? How could it come to be?"

"If it came into being, then it was not before."

"Being has no beginning and no end."

"The same thing exists for thinking and for being."

"You cannot know what is not."

"Thought and being are the same."

"What is, is necessarily; what is not, cannot be."

"Being is ungenerated, imperishable, whole, homogeneous, and immovable."

"The path of persuasion accompanies truth."

"Never shall this prevail, that what is not, is."

"It is necessary to speak and think what is."

"Being is eternal and unchanging."

"Change is mere illusion."

"What is cannot come from what is not."

"Nonbeing cannot be thought."

"Being is continuous and indivisible."

"There is no void, for void would be nothing."

"Motion is impossible, for it would require the void."

"Plurality is an illusion; all is one."

"The real world is one, eternal, and immutable."

"Sensory experience deceives us."

"Only reason can grasp true reality."

"Trust not your senses; trust reason alone."

"Being neither comes to be nor passes away."

"The road of night is a false path."

"All that exists is eternal and infinite."

"Division and change are mere appearances."