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It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen; this law is universal to the whole human race.

— Seneca the Elder

Iniquum est conlapsis manum non porrigere; commune hoc ius generis humani est.

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Book I, Chapter I; slightly modified translation from Norman T. Pratt Seneca's Drama (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983) p. 140

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