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Some laws are not written, but are more decisive than any written law.

— Seneca the Elder

Quædam iura non scripta, sed omnibus scriptis certiora sunt.

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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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The whole world would have been destroyed if compassion did not put an end to anger.

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