“If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.”
Quote by Epictetus
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Source: All the Familiar Colloquies of Desiderius Erasmus, of Roterdam, Concerning Men, Manners, and Things
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Source: The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds