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"[M]an...does not penetrate the phenomena to see what is truly to be admired, and admires instead what he sees....Of all the things that appear to be good, how many of them endure?..It is clear that everything is, in itself, nothing at each particular moment of time, since it is always evolving into something else through the process of change....Mortal men, as you look upon the universe, see in it your own nature."

"The sovereign and highest Good, whose nature is goodness, this is divine nature itself...Now since those who have come to know the highest good, desire completely to share in it, and since this good is limitless, it follows that their desire must necessarily be coextensive with the limitless, and therefore have no limit. ...For it may be that human perfection consists precisely in this constant growth in the good."