“A great fortune is a great slavery.”
Magna servitus est magna fortuna. / Magna servitus est magna servitus
Seneca the Younger book To Polybius
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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