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since there is no fear lest anyone should forget the truth if once he grasps it with his soul, seeing that it occupies the smallest possible space1; rather, if he wrote at all, it was to gratify his base love of glory, either by giving out the doctrines as his own discoveries, or else by showing, forsooth, that he shared a culture which he by no means deserved because of his lust for the fame accruing from its possession.