The most perfect soul, says Heraclitus, is a dry light, which flies
out of the body as lightning breaks from a cloud.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD)
-- Life of Romulus
out of the body as lightning breaks from a cloud.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD)
-- Life of Romulus
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