"Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo."
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A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. â Seneca the Elder, Epistles, 76.
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