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Every good thing is gentle and consistent, progressing in good order and not going beyond what is right.

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The utility of a science which enables men to take cognizance of the travellers on the mind's highway, and excludes those disorderly interlopers, verbal fallacies, needs but small attestation.

Things essentially incorporeal, because they are more excellent than all body and place, are every where, not with interval, but impartibly.

The fleshless diet contributes to health and to a suitable endurance of hard work in philosophy.

Soul, indeed, is a certain medium between an impartible essence, and an essence which is divisible about bodies.

Every body is in place; but nothing essentially incorporeal, or any thing of this kind, has any locality.

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