“Virtue runs no risk of becoming contemptible by being exposed to view, and it is better to be despised for simplicity than to be tormented by continual hypocrisy.”

— Seneca the Younger

On Tranquility of the Mind

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Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BC

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