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Plutarch, On Being A Busybody, 515d

nan but if that is impossible, it is best at least to interchange and readjust them in some way other, turning or shifting them about. Such a malady of the mind, to take the first instance, is curiosity, which is a desire to learn the troubles of others, a disease which is thought to be free from neither envy nor malice: Why do you look so sharp on others' ills, Malignant man, yet overlook your own? Shift your curiosity from things without and turn it inwards; if you enjoy dealing with the recital of troubles, you have much occupation at home: Great as the water flowing down Alizon, Many as the leaves around the oak, so great a quantity of transgressions will you find your own life

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mystery cult	Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
perfection	Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
periagôgê	Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
philosophy,philosophical	Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
pythagorean	Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
ritual	Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
semantics	Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
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soul	Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
turning soul	Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
universe	Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
vertical metaphor/movement'	Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204