Heroic Virtue 2
The highest station of human life is to be attained by each man that pretends to it ; for every man can be as valiant , as generous , as wise , and as merciful , as the faculties and opportunities which he has from Heaven and fortune will permit . He that can say to himself , I do as much good , and am as virtuous as my most earnest endeavors will allow me , whatever is his station in the world , is to himself possessed of the highest honor.
-Cicero's letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate.
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