Magni pectoris est inter secunda moderatio.

 

Magni pectoris est inter secunda moderatio.
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It is the sign of a great spirit to be moderate in prosperity.
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Suasoriae, ch. 1, sect. 3; translation from Michael Winterbottom (trans.) Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 2, p. 489

 

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