"How few philosophers are to be found who are such in character, so ordered in soul and in life, as reason demands; who regard their teaching not as a display of knowledge, but as the rule of life; who obey themselves, and submit to their own decrees!"
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Cicero, Tusculan Disputations Book II, Chapter IV; translation by Andrew P. Peabody (45 BC)
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