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[...] The source of happiness in ourselves [is] greater than that which arises from objects.

— Metrodorus of Lampsacus

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Attributed to Metrodorus by Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, II, 21, as translated by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Clement of Alexandria, vol. II, in Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, vol. XII, 1869, p. 74.

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