An idea from The Doctrine of the Mean

Some people are born knowing their duties. Others learn them by study, or only after the pain of getting it wrong. Some do right easily, some for what it gets them, some by hard effort. Once the thing is done, it comes to the same.

From The Doctrine of the Mean by Zisi

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