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What was always was, and always shall be. For, if it came into being, necessarily, before its generation, there was nothing; so, if there were nothing, nothing at all would come from nothing.

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For if there is earth and water and air and fire and iron and gold, and one living and another dead, and again black and white and all the other things that people say are real, if indeed there are these, and we see and hear correctly, each must be such as we first decided, and they cannot change or become different, but each is always as it is.

Melissus of Samos

Melissus of Samos

Melissus of Samos

Born: 470 BC

Died: 430 BC (aged 40)

Bio: Melissus of Samos was the third and last member of the ancient school of Eleatic philosophy, whose other members included Zeno and Parmenides.

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