Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Letters to Lucilius, letter 91, page 294. https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Lettres_%C3%A0_Lucilius/Lettre_91 <br class="br">Other works
“That Donne himself, for not being understood, would perish.”
Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden (1711)
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