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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

And what’s so bad about your being deprived of that?... All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have become soft through a life of luxury, ailing more in the mind than they ever are in the body.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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