A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
QuintilianGive bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
QuintilianVirtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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