Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.
Seneca the YoungerPhilosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Seneca the Younger