There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness because it springs from loyalty to the laws and an oath, and not from the baseness of soul.

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There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness because it springs from loyalty to the laws and an oath, and not from the baseness of soul.

-- Simone Weil

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There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness because it springs from loyalty to the laws and an oath, and not from the baseness of soul. –

-- Simone Weil

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