Freedom is the prize we are working for: not being slave to… - Seneca

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Freedom is the prize we are working for: not being slave to anything—not to compulsion, not to chance events—making fortune meet us on a level playing field.

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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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Aut potentior te aut inbecillior laesit: si inbecillior, parce illi, si potentior, tibi.

You say: ‘I did not think it would happen.’ Do you think there is anything that will not happen, when you know that it is possible to happen, when you see that it has already happened to many?

The day a man becomes superior to pleasure, he will also be superior to pain.

Freedom is the prize we are working for: not being slave to anything—not to compulsion, not to chance events—making fortune meet us on a level playin… - Seneca

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