Letter 808: Virtue must be practiced with all one's strength — not merely admired from a distance.
Textual variant: "he would turn" versus the catena reading.
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Latin / Greek Original
P. 808, 809. LIB. III, EP. 250.
P. 357, lit. C, lin. f. Ρ. τρέψειεν, cat.
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