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Speech is a powerful master, which by means of the smallest and most invisible body accomplishes most divine deeds. For it

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 Speech is a powerful master, which by means of the smallest and most invisible body accomplishes most divine deeds. For it

Jan 04,2024

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On most matters, most people make opinion an adviser to their soul. But opinion is fallible and uncertain and involves those

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 On most matters, most people make opinion an adviser to their soul. But opinion is fallible and uncertain and involves those

Nov 07,2023

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Everything that comes to be has some beginning, but what is eternal, being ungenerated did not have a beginning. But if it

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 Everything that comes to be has some beginning, but what is eternal, being ungenerated did not have a beginning. But if it

Jan 21,2022

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The best way in which the excellence of each thing comes to be present in it, whether it’s that of an artifact or of a body or

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 The best way in which the excellence of each thing comes to be present in it, whether it’s that of an artifact or of a body or

May 04,2021

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A person who wants to be happy must evidently pursue and practice self-control… This is the target which I think one should

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 A person who wants to be happy must evidently pursue and practice self-control… This is the target which I think one should

Dec 10,2020

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My wonderful man, you’re trying to refute me in oratorical style, the way people in law courts do when they think they’

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 My wonderful man, you’re trying to refute me in oratorical style, the way people in law courts do when they think they’

Nov 24,2020

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This is what that skilled and good orator will look to when he applies to people’s souls whatever speeches he makes as well

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 This is what that skilled and good orator will look to when he applies to people’s souls whatever speeches he makes as well

Oct 27,2020

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