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If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

εἰ τοῖς πολλοῖς προσεῖχον, οὐκ ἂν ἐφιλοσόφησα.

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The universe itself is God, or an emanation of the divine mind.

Living virtuously is equivalent to living in accordance with experience of the actual course of nature.

The wise man is in want of nothing, and yet needs many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by the fool, for he does not understand how to use anything, but he is in want of everything.

If I knew that it was fated for me to be sick, I would even move toward it; for the foot also, if it had intelligence, would move to go into the mud.

We should infer in the case of a beautiful dwelling-place that it was built for its owners and not for mice; we ought, therefore, in the same way to regard the universe as the dwelling-place of the gods.

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