...And asks what ails him so, and gets what cure he can. " Once read thine own breast right And thou has done with fears ; Man gets no other light, Search he a thousand years, Sink in thyself ! " But though he points again and again to the desired goal, self knowledge, he bewails that the wisest...

...often is heard in Empedocles' song in the second scene. Once read thy own breast right, And thou has done with fears; Man gets no other light, Search he a thousand years. ***** And yet for those who know Themselves, who wisely take Their way through life, and bow To what...