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Quintus Sextius Quotes

Quintus Sextius the Elder (c. 50 BC) was a Roman philosopher, whose philosophy combined pythagoreanism with stoicism.

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Also known as: Sentences of Sextus, Sextus the Pythagorean

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Consider lost all the time in which you do not think of divinity.

A good intellect is the choir of divinity.

He who is worthy of God is also a god among men.

The greatest honor which can be paid to God is to know and imitate him.

The sage and the contemner of wealth most resemble God.

You should not dare to speak of God to the multitude.

It is not death; but a bad life, which destroys the soul.

Nothing is so peculiar to wisdom as truth.

He best honors God who makes his intellect as like God as possible.

Accustom your soul after (it has conceived all that is great of) divinity, to conceive something great of itself.

There is danger, and no negligible one, to speak of God even the things that are true.

To live, indeed, is not in our power; but to live rightly is.

You have in yourself some thing similar to God, and therefore use yourself as the temple of God, on account of that which in you resembles God.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Quintus Sextius (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.