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"It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores."

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About Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist active in the first century CE. His moral essays and letters became foundational texts in Stoic thought.

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