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«The people of Acragas indulge in pleasure as if they were to die tomorrow, and build their houses as if they were to live for ever.»
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Diogenes Laertius (VIII 63) puts it in Empedocles' mouth, but Aelian (Varia Historia XII 29) ascribes an almost identical saying to Plato. It is a wandering apophthegm with no secure source.
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«For straitened are the powers that are spread over their bodily parts.»
DK 31 B2.1, en Sexto Empírico, Contra los matemáticos VII 123. Griego: texto de Fairbanks (1898), basado en la edición de Stein; numeración Diels-Kranz. Inglés: John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy (1908). Español: traducción propia.
«Hear first the four roots of all things: shining Zeus, life-bringing Hera, Aidoneus, and Nestis whose tear-drops are a well-spring to mortals.»
DK 31 B6, en Aecio I 3, 20, y Diógenes Laercio VIII 76 (DK lee τέσσαρα γὰρ πάντων). Griego: texto de Fairbanks (1898), basado en la edición de Stein; numeración Diels-Kranz. Inglés: John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy (1908). Español: traducción propia.
«And I shall tell thee another thing. There is no coming into being of aught that perishes, nor any end for it in baneful death; but only mingling and change of what has been mingled. Coming into being is but a name given to these by men.»
DK 31 B8, en Plutarco, Contra Colotes 1111f, y Aecio I 30, 1. Griego: texto de Fairbanks (1898), basado en la edición de Stein; numeración Diels-Kranz. Inglés: John Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy (1908). Español: traducción propia.