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Aurelius, Meditations 11.25: The Pythagoreans were wont betimes in the morning the first thing they did, t...
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The Pythagoreans were wont betimes in the morning the first thing they did, to look up unto the heavens, to put themselves in mind of them who constantly and invariably did perform their task: as also to put themselves in mind of orderliness, or good order, and of purity, and of naked simplicity. For no star or planet hath any cover before it.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_11_xxv
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