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He will call back to the right path those who have gone astray; He will cleanse the world from evil, now washing it away with water-floods, now burning it out with fiercest fire, or again expelling it by war and pestilence.

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It is with life just as with swimming; that man is the most expert who is the most disengaged from all encumbrances.

For when you have once begun to serve the Goddess, you will then in a still higher degree enjoy the fruit of your liberty.

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought more profitable than life; no one will raise his eyes to heaven.

No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven and of the Gods of heaven, will be heard or believed.

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