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A man’s ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.

~ Seneca the Younger

Ad Lucilium epistulae morales

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Seneca the Younger

Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. Wikipedia

Born: -4, Roman Empire

Died: 65 AD, Roman Empire

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