Seneca: It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is t

It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which — Seneca

It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great.

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Virtue is no empty echo. — Friedrich Schiller
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