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Are you of noble lineage? proud of your ancestry? Yet we are all born equal, virtue alone gives mark.

— Marcus Minucius Felix

Nobilitate generosus es? Parentes tuos laudas? Omnes tamen pari sorte nascimur, sola virtute distinguimur.

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