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"Nothing is to be preferred before justice"

μηδὲν πρὸ τοῦ δικαίου

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Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him.

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