"# The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle."

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“# Martin Heidegger, Parmenides (1942–1943)”

“#* Lucianus, Quomodo hist. conscrib. 2; Idem, Icaromen 8.”

“#* Compare Chrysippus from Philodem. P. eusebeias, vii. p. 81, Gomperz.”

“#* Proclus in Tim. 54 A (comp. 24 B).”

“#* Plutarch, de Iside 48, p. 370. Context, see frag. 43.”

“#* Hippolytus, Ref. haer. ix. 9 (Fragment 53). Context: "And that the father of all created things is created and uncreated, the made and the maker, we hear him (Heraclitus) saying, 'War is the father and king of all,' etc."”

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