“I think he who knows himself will know accurately, not the opinion of others about him, but what he is in reality… he ought to discover within himself what is right for him to do and not learn it from without…”

As quoted in The Works of the Emperor Julian (1923) by Wilmer Cave France Wright, p. 91
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Roman Emperor, philosopher and writer 331–363

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