“The whole world would have been destroyed if compassion did not put an end to anger.”

— Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Book I, Chapter I; slightly modified translation from Michael Winterbottom, Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 1 p. 33
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Perierat totus orbis, nisi iram finiret misericordia.

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Roman scholar -54–39 BC

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