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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

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The Soul That Companies With Virtue Is

Epictetus

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.

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A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

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