“The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys.”

—  Epictetus

Fragment ii.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments

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