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Stepping from summit to summit, not to travel only one path to the end....
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What is right may well be said even twice.
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For they prevail in turn as the circle comes round, and pass into one another, and grow great in their appointed turn. R. P. 166 c.
They are what they are; but, running through one another, they become men and the tribes of beasts. At one time they are all brought together into one order by Love; at another, 5 they are carried each in different directions by the repulsion of Strife, till they grow once more into one and are wholly subdued. Thus in so far as they are wont to grow into one out of many, and again divided become more than one, so far they come into being, and their life is not lasting; but in 10 so far as they never cease changing continually, so far are they evermore, immovable in the circle.
There are distinguished neither the swift limbs of the sun, no, nor the shaggy earth in its might, nor the sea,—so fast was the god bound in the close covering of Harmony, spherical and round, rejoicing in his circular solitude.[[552]] R. P. 167.
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