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The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.
The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.
Approximate author period: c. 75 BC · classical
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- Cicero
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- Approximate author period: c. 75 BC · classical
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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 443 · printed citation: Cicero
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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