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| Enough of them! ... They [Ephesians] cannot retain anything, but with constant chatter they let it flow out. Athenians, since they are born from their own soil, know human nature and realize that men who have come from the earth sometimes have a cracked mind. They teach these men caution through secret mysteries, in order that they might at least keep silence out of fear, since they will not do so out of discretion. Then it is no longer difficult for the soul to practice silence." | Enough of them! ... They [Ephesians] cannot retain anything, but with constant chatter they let it flow out. Athenians, since they are born from their own soil, know human nature and realize that men who have come from the earth sometimes have a cracked mind. They teach these men caution through secret mysteries, in order that they might at least keep silence out of fear, since they will not do so out of discretion. Then it is no longer difficult for the soul to practice silence." | ||
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