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quod quoniam non placet, aperta simplexque
mens nulla re adiuncta, quae sentire possit, fugere intellegentiae
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nostrae vim et notionem videtur. Crotoniates autem Alcmaeo, qui soli et lunae reliquisque sideribus animoque praeterea divinitatem dedit, non sensit sese mortalibus rebus inmortalitatem dare. Nam
Pythagoras, qui censuit animum esse per naturam rerum omnem intentum et commeantem, ex quo nostri
animi carperentur, non vidit distractione humanorum
animorum discerpi et lacerari deum, et cum miseri
animi essent, quod plerisque contingeret, tum dei partem esse miseram, quod fieri non potest.
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