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Seneca the Elder

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Perierat totus orbis, nisi iram finiret misericordia.
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The whole world would have been destroyed if pity did not put an end to anger.
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Bk. 1, ch. 1, sect. 6; translation from Michael Winterbottom (trans.) Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 1 p. 33.

 
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