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c. 494-434 BC

Empedocles

Philosopher, poet and healer from Sicily who taught that the world is shaped by Love and Strife acting on four elements.

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  1. Fast from wickedness.

    Plutarch calls this saying of Empedocles great and divine: to fast from badness. People fast from food or wine to train themselves. The harder and better discipline is going without cruelty, lies and spite.

    Fragment B144 Diels-Kranz, quoted by Plutarch, On Controlling Anger 464b, our translation from the Greek