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Skull:
Philo of Alexandria was not sympathetic to men who lust for boys:


--- Quote ---The common and vulgar love for boys, not only robs men of courage, the virtue most useful for life in peace as well as war, but produces in their souls the disease of effeminacy and renders androgynous those who should have been trained in all the pursuits making for valor. And having ruined their years of boyhood, and degraded them to the class and condition of sex objects, it injures the lovers, too, in the most essential respects, body, mind, and property. For the mind of the boy-lover is necessarily aimed at his darling, and is keen-sighted for him only, blind to all other interests, private and public.
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Contemplative Life, Winston translation

Skull:

--- Quote ---Those things on which philosophy has set its seal are beyond the reach of injury; no age will discard them or lessen their force, each succeeding century will add somewhat to the respect in which they are held; for we look upon what is near us with jealous eyes, but we admire what is further off with less prejudice. The wise man's life, therefore, includes much; he is not hedged in by the same limits which confine others; he alone is exempt from the laws by which mankind is governed; all ages serve him like a god. If any time be past he recalls it by his memory, if it be present he uses it, if it be future he anticipates it; his life is a long one because he concentrates all times into it.
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Seneca (d. 65)

Skull:
A splendid article by Bradley Birzer on ancient philosophers valuing reason & the Logos:

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2021/05/10-ancient-books-influenced-stoicism-bradley-birzer.html


--- Quote ---“A book is a word spoken into creation. Its message goes out into the world. It cannot be taken back,” Michael O’Brien warned as well as assured in his magisterial novel, Sophia House. Just as each word is a reflection of The Word (Logos), so each book is a reflection of The Book. While Christians have come to have a sort of monopoly on The Word and its greatest meaning and exemplar, others—such as the Stoics—embraced the Logos as well. And, while Christians have also come to have a sort of monopoly on The Book, others—such as the Stoics—embraced a variety of works. Here are ten books written by non-Stoics that greatly influenced Stoicism.
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Skull:

--- Quote ---Just as on a dark night black with clouds,
The sudden lightning glares and all is clearly shown,
Likewise rarely, through the Buddhas’ power,
Virtuous thoughts rise, brief and transient, in the world.

Virtue, thus, is weak; and always
Evil is of great and overwhelming strength.
Except for perfect bodhichitta,
What other virtue is there that can lay it low.
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Shantideva, from his Way of the Bodhisattva

Skull:

--- Quote ---Truth is the Voice of Nature and of time—
Truth is the startling monitor within us—
Naught is without it, it comes from the stars,
The golden sun, and every breeze that blows...
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Wm. Thompson Bacon, from Thoughts in Solitude.

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