Available translations: English
οὐδὲν χρῆμα μάτην γίνεται, ἀλλὰ πάντα ἐκ λόγου τε καὶ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκης.
Naught happens for nothing, but everything from a ground and of necessity.
John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, second edition (1908)How this fragment survives
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Original-text edition
Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2nd edition, volume I (Berlin: Weidmann, 1906), p. 350; historical running original-language text, excluding the critical apparatus.
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Notes & source
Burnet, section 178, p. 393. Exact words of his two-part quotation, with the intervening editorial “he said” and quotation marks omitted; the original comma is retained
Existing human translation retained verbatim; historical original-language passage covers the same translated quotation.
Complete maxim visually matches 1906 ch 54B 2; replaces the undated Gottwein source with historical scan.
Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 2nd edition, volume I (Berlin: Weidmann, 1906), p. 350; historical running original-language text, excluding the critical apparatus. View original source ↗
English: John Burnet · Early Greek Philosophy, second edition (1908) Published translation ↗
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