One must have nothing to do with the partiality of the individual, passionate self in order to raise oneself to the universality of the rational self. (Pierre Hadot)

One must have nothing to do with the partiality of the individual, passionate self in order to raise oneself to the universality of the rational self.

Pierre Hadot

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