“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”

— Heraclitus

Fragment 67
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ὁ θεὸς ἡμέρη εὐφρόνη, χειμὼν θέρος, πόλεμος εἰρήνη, κόρος λιμός

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pre-Socratic Greek philosopher -535

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