But what is lawful for all extends across wide-ruling aether and, without cease, through endless sunshine.

From such honor and such a height of fortune am I, thus fallen to earth, cast down amongst mortals.

For already, sometime, I have been a boy and a girl, a shrub, a bird, and a silent fish in the sea.

A law there is, an oracle of Doom, Of old enacted by the assembled gods, That if a Daemon-such as live for ages- Defile himself with foul and sinful murder, He must for seasons thrice ten thousand roam Far from the Blest; such is the path I tread, I too a wanderer and exile from heaven.

Fortunate is he who has acquired a wealth of divine understanding, but wretched the one whose interest lies in shadowy conjectures about divinities.

The sight of both eyes becomes one.

The earth's sweat, the sea.

With deep roots Ether plunged into earth.

What needs saying is worth saying twice.

As it has long been and shall be, not ever, I think, will unfathomable time be emptied of either. This quote refers to Love and Strife, the fundamental opposing and ordering forces in Empedocles' model of the cosmos.