Dumb creatures have not human feelings, but have certain impulses which resemble them: for if it were not so, if they could feel love and hate, they … - Seneca

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Dumb creatures have not human feelings, but have certain impulses which resemble them: for if it were not so, if they could feel love and hate, they would likewise be capable of friendship and enmity, of disagreement and agreement. Some traces of these qualities exist even in them, though properly all of them, whether good or bad, belong to the human breast alone.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – A.D. 65), often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and humorist. He was the son of Seneca the Elder.

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Native Name: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Alternative Names: Seneca the Younger the Younger Seneca Lucio Anneo Seneca Annaeus Seneca Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior L. Annæus Seneca Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger

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