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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.

— Quintus Sextius

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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.

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