Quote #29

Thou shalt not blame or flatter any. (6)

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  6. True instruction is this: -to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer h…
  7. Whatever moral rules you have deliberately proposed to yourself. abide by them as they were laws, and as if you would be guilty of impiety …
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