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To Polybius

Seneca the Younger Original title Ad Polybium de consolatione (Latin)
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“A great fortune is a great slavery.”
Magna servitus est magna fortuna. / Magna servitus est magna servitus

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From Ad Polybium De Consolatione (Of Consolation, To Polybius), chap. VI, line 5
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“Nothing lasts forever, few things even last for long: all are susceptible of decay in one way or another; moreover all that begins also ends.”
Nihil perpetuum, pauca diuturna sunt; aliud alio modo fragile est, rerum exitus variantur, ceterum quicquid coepit et desinit.

Seneca the Younger book To Polybius

From Ad Polybium De Consolatione (Of Consolation, To Polybius), chap. I; translation based on work of Aubrey Stewart
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