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“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.
— Seneca the Younger
Stoic philosopher
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius) / Letter XXVII
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