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Empedocles Quotes: For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.
         

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.


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This page presents the quote "For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.". Author of this quote is Empedocles. This quote is about boys, sea, plant, fish in the sea, born, bird,.