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Aurelius, Meditations 11.11: Then is the soul as Empedocles doth liken it, like unto a sphere or globe, wh...
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Then is the soul as Empedocles doth liken it, like unto a sphere or globe, when she is all of one form and figure: when she neither greedily stretcheth out herself unto anything, nor basely contracts herself, or lies flat and dejected; but shineth all with light, whereby she does see and behold the true nature, both that of the universe, and her own in particular.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. AD 170) · aur_11_xi
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