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Fr. 1 · Diogenes Laertius VIII 85On Nature, of which the beginning is as follows:Nature in the cosmos was fitted together out of unlimited things and limiting things, both the cosmos as a whole and all the things in it. Fr. 2 · Stobaeus, Eclogae I 21, 7a (p. 187, 14 Wachsmuth)From Philolaus’ On the Cosmos.It is necessary that the things that are be all either limiting, or unlimited, or both limiting and unlimited; but they could not be unlimited only or limiting only. Since, then, they are plainly neither from things that are all limiting nor from things that are all unlimited, it is clear therefore that the cosmos and the things in it were fitted together from both limiting things and unlimited things. The things found in actual works make this clear too. For those of them that are from limiting things limit, those that are from both limiting things and unlimited things both limit and …
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