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Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue cannot reach it.

— Quintus Curtius Rufus

Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.

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Notes from Wikiquote

J. K. Hoyt and Anna L. Ward (1882) p. 572

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