“When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?”

— Epictetus

Book I, ch. 14.
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philosopher from Ancient Greece 50–138

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