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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Fragments of Parmenides 3


Welcome, O youth, that comes to my abode on the car that bears you tended by immortal charioteers! It is no ill chance, but right and justice that has sent you forth to travel on this way. 

Far, indeed, does it lie from the beaten track of men! Fitting it is that you should learn all things, as well the unshaken heart of well-rounded truth, as the opinions of mortals in which is no true belief at all.  

Yet nonetheless shall you learn these things also—how passing right through all things one should judge the things that seem to be. 


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