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“Even the great king will appear as the poorest of men if compared with a single virtue. For his wealth is soulless, buried deep in store-houses and recesses of the earth, but the wealth of virtue lies in the sovereign part of the soul, and the purest part of existence.
— Philo of Alexandria
Hellenistic Jewish philosopher
Philo, On The Virtues, p. 213
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