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Original / primary: Perseus Eng3
39.p52
39.p52
The measure of possession (property) is to every man the body, as the foot is of the shoe.
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If then you stand on this rule (the demands of the body), you will maintain the measure: but if you pass beyond it, you must then of necessity be hurried as it were down a precipice. As also in the matter of the shoe, if you go beyond the (necessities of the) foot, the shoe is gilded, then of a purple colour, then embroidered:
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for there is no limit to that which has once passed the true measure.