All things are in all things, but in each in the way that suits its own nature.
Πάντα ἐν πᾶσιν, ἀλλ᾽ οἰκείως ἐν ἑκάστῳ.
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Porphyry
Born c. 234 in Tyre, Porphyry was a Phoenician Neoplatonist who edited Plotinus into the Enneads. His logic primer Isagoge was the standard textbook of Aristotelian logic in medieval Europe and the Islamic world.
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