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Quote of the day by Xenophanes: 'If horses or oxen or lions had hands… horses would paint the forms of gods like horses' and a universal truth about human psychology

Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570 – c. 478 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher, poet, and social critic. Born in Ionia (modern-day Turkey), he spent most of his long life wandering across the Greek world as a traveling poet after his hometown was conquered by the Persians.

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