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" When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. "

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" I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. "

" To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils. "

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