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“One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.”
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- Source:
- Zeno. liii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 56bfe79bae812f6311c4becf0db88d1d82e75dd8d5b89aef3502823bf2f720ce
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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