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Seneca the Elder
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“Magni pectoris est inter secunda moderatio.”
Seneca the Elder (54 BC–39) said by 39 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perierat totus orbis, nisi iram finiret misericordia.”
Seneca the Elder (54 BC–39) said by 39 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book I, Chapter I; slightly modified translation from Michael Winterbottom, Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 1 p. 33
“Iniquum est conlapsis manum non porrigere; commune hoc ius generis humani est.”
Seneca the Elder (54 BC–39) said by 39 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book I, Chapter I; slightly modified translation from Norman T. Pratt Seneca's Drama (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983) p. 140
“Quædam iura non scripta, sed omnibus scriptis certiora sunt.”
Seneca the Elder (54 BC–39) said by 39 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book I, Chapter I; slightly modified translation from Norman T. Pratt Seneca's Drama (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983) p. 140
“Vivamus, moriendum est.”
Seneca the Elder (54 BC–39) said by 39 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book II, Chapter VI; translation from Michael Winterbottom, Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 1 p. 349