hermit1986 on Nostr: “You are expressing a wish that the whole human race were inoffensive, which may ...
“You are expressing a wish that the whole human race were inoffensive, which may hardly be; moreover, those who would gain by such wrongs not being done are those who would do them, not he who could not suffer from them even if they were done.”
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On The Firmness Of The Wise Man, IV (translated by Aubrey Stewart, 1900)
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