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Heraclitus sits apart from the other philosophers in Raphael's School of Athens |
War is the father of all and king of all; and some he shows as gods, others as men, some he makes slaves, others free.
-- Heraclitus, Diels-Kranz, 22B53
Πόλεμος πάντων μὲν πατήρ ἐστι, πάντων δὲ
βασιλεύς, καὶ τοὺς μὲν θεοὺς ἔδειξε τοὺς δὲ
ἀνθρώπους, τοὺς μὲν δούλους ἐποίησε τοὺς δὲ
ἐλευθέρους.