Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“For if anyone follows Democritus' theory, saying that the atoms have no free motion, since they collide with one another, from which it appears that the motion of everything is necessitated, we shall say to him 'Do you not know, whoever you are, that the atoms have a free motion, which Democritus did not discover, but Epicurus revealed, namely the motion of the swerve, as he shows from the phenomena?”

Diogenes of Oenoanda Διογένης ὁ Οἰνοανδεύς 77 – 142 CE
Great Preserver of Epicureanism

from Wall Fragment 54

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