A passage from Panaetius of Rhodes
Panaetius of Rhodes, Fragments (in Cicero, De Officiis) 1.92
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No man is by nature fitted for any particular office, but all men are capable of virtue if they are properly trained. The seeds of virtue are in every human soul.
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