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neque Herculi quisquam decumam vovit umquam, si sapiens
factus esset—quamquam Pythagoras, cum in geometria quiddam novi invenisset, Musis bovem immolavisse dicitur; sed id quidem non credo, quoniam ille
ne Apollini quidem Deli hostiam immolare voluit, ne
aram sanguine aspergeret. ad rem autem ut redeam,
iudicium hoc omnium mortalium est, fortunam a deo
petendam, a se ipso sumendam esse sapientiam. quamvis licet Menti delubra et Virtuti et Fidei consecremus,
tamen haec in nobis ipsis sita videmus; spei salutis
opis victoriae facultas a dis expetenda est.
Inproborum igitur prosperitates secundaeque res redarguunt, ut Diogenes dicebat, vim omnem deorum
ac potestatem.
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