Virtue is better than riches and more serviceable than high birth. It makes possible what is for others impossible. It supports with fortitude that which is fearful to the multitude, and it considers sloth a disgrace and toil an honor. Isocrates. To Demonicus. Book 1. Section 7.
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| Gravestone of a seven year old Greek girl named Apollonia depicted stroking a dove, the symbol of the soul, and holding a pomegranate, an attribute of Persephone, goddess of the Underworld about 300 BCE photographed at the Getty Villa in Malibu, California. |
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