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“You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.”

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Frag B 1.28-30, quoted by Sextus Empiricus, Against the Mathematicians, vii. 3; Simplicius, Commentary on the Heavens, 557-8; Proclus, Commentary on the Timaeus I, 345

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“Never will this prevail, that the things that are not are — bar your thought from this road of inquiry.”

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Frag. B 7.1-2, quoted by Plato, Sophist, 237a

“For it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be.”

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Frag. B 3, quoted by Plotinus, Enneads V, i.8