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Anaximander · 58 words · Greek Text and English Translation

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Fragment 1

‘Immortal and indestructible,’ ‘surrounds all and directs all.’

Source: Aristotle, Physics iii.4; 203 b 13 ff.

Fragment 2

‘(To that they return when they are destroyed) of necessity; for he says that they suffer punishment and give satisfaction to one another for injustice.’ (b) PASSAGES RELATING TO ANAXIMANDROS IN ARISTOTLE.

Source: Simplicius, Physics 6 r (24, 19); Diels, Dox. 476

Source: Arthur Fairbanks, The First Philosophers of Greece (London, 1898), Project Gutenberg #78670 (public domain)
Status: fragment · License: Public domain

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