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GERMANUS: Perhaps this tendency of the mind to rove might to some
extent be checked were it not that so great a swam of enemies surrounded
it, and ceaselessly urged it toward what it has no wish for, or rather
whither the roving character of its own nature drives it. And since such
numberless foes, and those so powerful and terrible, surround it, we should
not fancy that it was possible for them to be withstood especially by this
weak flesh of ours, were we not encouraged to this view by your words as if
by oracles from heaven.
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