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The Shortest And Surest Way To Live With Honor In The World Is To Be In Reality What We Would Appear To Be
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The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to
be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase
and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
-- Socrates (BC 469-399)
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