If you want to be a great writer, write great books. If you want to be a great painter, paint great pictures. But if you want to be a great philosopher, be a great human being.
Stoic philosopher, former slave
Discourses, Book III, Chapter 2 (paraphrased, essence retained)
c. 108 AD
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