Riddle: what is greatest? — Mythoi

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Riddle: what is greatest?

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Hermetic / AlchemicalThrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena, Chapter IX: Plutarch: Concerning the Mysteries of Isis and Osiris

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Filed under Riddles of the superlative – miscellaneous.

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What is greatest? Fame What is the greatest? A sense of shame What is the greatest? Charity What is the greatest villainy? Stealing

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