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Seneca the Younger

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Compare with the following : No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.
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From The Imitation of Christ, Liber I, cap. 20 (Of the Love of Solitude and Silence), line 2 : by Thomas ? Kempis (1380-1471).

 
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