The two following extracts are from Clemens Alexandrinus in Stromat. lib. 3. p. 413.
The ancient theologists and priests testify that the soul is conjoined to the body through a certain punishment, and that it is buried in this body as in a sepulchre. Philolaus.
Whatever we see when awake is death; and when asleep, a dream. Pythagoras.
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To neglect things of the smallest consequence, is not the least thing in human life.
The wise man, and the despiser of wealth, resembles God.
Do not investigate the name of God, because you will not find it. For every thing which is called by a name, receives its appellation from that which is more worthy than itself,[90] so that it is one person that calls, and another that hears. Who is it, therefore, that has given a name to God? God, however, is not a name to God, but an indication of what we conceive of him.
God is a light incapable of receiving its contrary [darkness.]
You have in yourself something similar to God, and therefore use yourself as the temple of God, on account of that which in you resembles God.