What Empedocles Knew

If you fix them in your strong intelligence and gaze upon them propitiously with pure attention, these things will all be very much present to you all your life long and from them you will obtain many others. For these very things grow into each kind of character, depending on each person's nature. But if you reach out for other kinds of things, the millions of evils that are found among men which blunt their thoughts, indeed they will leave you immediately as time revolves, longing to come to their own dear kind. For know that all things posses thought and a portion of intelligence.