Quintus Sextius Quotes

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You should not dare to speak of God to the multitude.

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There is danger, and no negligible one, to speak of God even the things that are true.

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To live, indeed, is not in our power; but to live rightly is.

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Accustom your soul after (it has conceived all that is great of) divinity, to conceive something great of itself.

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Consider lost all the time in which you do not think of divinity.

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The greatest honor which can be paid to God is to know and imitate him.

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You have in yourself some thing similar to God, and therefore use yourself as the temple of God, on account of that which in you resembles God.

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The sage and the contemner of wealth most resemble God.

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It is not death; but a bad life, which destroys the soul.

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He best honors God who makes his intellect as like God as possible.

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