Note 142 — Chapter XII · THE LAW FOR HUMANITY.
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‘nec summum bonum habebit sinceritatem suam, si aliquid in se viderit dissimile meliori’ Sen. Dial. vii 15, 1; ‘No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things; but if you have preferred this (one thing) to all things, if you choose to attend to this only, to work out this only, give up everything else’ Epict. Disc. iv 2, 4.