You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.
Stoic philosopher, former slave
The Discourses of Epictetus
c. 1st-2nd Century AD
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