Great Throughts Treasury
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Julian, aka Julian the Apostate, or Emperor Julian, fully Flavius Claudius Julianus Augustus NULL
Roman Emperor, Philosopher and Greek Writer
"It would be a pious act to share our clothes and food even with the wicked. For it is to the humanity in a man that we give, and not to his moral character."
"The end and aim of the Cynic philosophy, as indeed of every philosophy, is happiness, but happiness that consists in living according to nature, and not according to the opinions of the multitude."
"Zeal to do all that is in one's power is, in truth, a proof of piety."
"Zeal to do all that is in one's power is, in truth, a proof of piety."
"So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted its nectar."
"Of all things nothing exists that is not by its substance the offspring of ocean."