“Such a person does not cease longing after insatiable appetites, struggling in the darkness without satisfaction. This tortures him and makes the fire grow upon him all the more.”
Quote by Hermes Trismegistus
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Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius
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