Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue." (Diogenes Laërtius)

Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."

Diogenes Laërtius

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