I leave you the best phrases of Empedocles (495-444 BC), Greek philosopher, poet and politician who postulated the theory of the four roots. His work On the nature of beings there are more than 150 fragments. He has been variously regarded as a materialistic physicist, mystical theologian, healer, democratic politician, or living god.
As a curiosity, there are several theories of the death of Empedocles. One says that Empedocles, at the age of sixty, thought that by jumping into a volcano he would become a god, and he did.
Another legend tells that Empedocles threw himself into the volcano so that people would think that his body had vanished and he had become a god. However, according to this legend, his bronze sandal fell off, revealing that it was not.
Finally, the theory that seems most plausible, affirms that the philosopher was infected with a plague that Athens suffered, dying in 430 BC. You may also be interested in these phrases of Parmenides or these of philosophers about life.
-The nature of God is a circle in whose center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
-Each man believes only his experience.
-What is correct could be well said even twice.
-It is impossible for something to become what it is in no way.
-The sweat of the land, the sea.
-It is convenient to repeat useful words.
-Many fires burn below the surface.
-I have been, previously, boy and girl, bush, bird and fish inhabitant of the sea.
-The sea is the sweat of the earth.
-What is correct can be pronounced correctly even twice.
-Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, miserable is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.
-Before this, I was once born a boy, a maiden, a plant, a bird and a flying fish in the sea.
-What is legal is not binding only for some and not binding for others. Legality extends everywhere, through the wide air and the infinite light of the sky.
-None of the gods has shaped the world, nor has any man, always has been.
-We see the earth for the earth, the water for the water, the divine air for the air and the destructive fire for the fire. We understand love for love and hate for hate.
-Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise and disappear like smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.
-Some time, through love, all things are united in one, at another time through the hatred of the struggles, they are brought to each of them separately.
-Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable in whom rests a dark opinion about the gods.
-No mortal thing has a beginning or end in death destruction; there is only a mixing and separation of the mixed, but by mortal men these processes are called "beginnings."
-The force that unites all the elements to be all things is love, also called Aphrodite. Love unites different elements in a unit, to become a composite thing. Love is the same force that human beings find at work, every time they feel joy, love and peace. Struggle, on the other hand, is the force responsible for dissolution.
-There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes the elements to be attracted to each other and built into a particular shape or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.