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THOMAS JEFFERSON

“Whenever you are to do a thing tho’ it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you.”

THOMAS JEFFERSON

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Reader of philosophical and classical works, Sanderson on the side

Inspiring and insightful quotes pulled from Ryan Holiday’s third book of his most recent stoic series over Justice, one of the four cardinal virtues of stoicism.

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