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Equality (isonomia) of the powers (wet, dry, cold, hot, bitter, sweet, etc.) maintains health but that monarchy among them produces disease.

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Concerning things that are not perceptible [and concerning mortal things] the gods have clarity, but insofar as it is possible for human beings to judge
Variant translation: "About what is invisible, about what is mortal, the gods have clear knowledge, but to us as men, only inference on what is coming is possible."

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All the senses are connected in some way with the brain. As a result, they are incapacitated when it is disturbed or changes its place, for it then stops the channels, through which the senses operate.

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Human beings perish because they are not able to join their beginning to their end.

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Alcmaeon of Croton

Born: 510 BC
Bio: Alcmaeon of Croton was one of the most eminent natural philosophers and medical theorists of antiquity. His father's name was Peirithus. He is said by some to have been a pupil of Pythagoras.

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