Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live. (Cicero)

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Cicero

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