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“The most perfect soul, says Heraclitus, is a dry light, which flies out of the body as lightning breaks from a cloud.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Romulus.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9b488af9808b19c477b5a77c4a4f005c36cd1fcf98f7e383c9ce07f477a7474d
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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