All cruelty springs from weakness. ✨ On the Happy Life. Essay by Senec…

Seneca the Younger
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All cruelty springs from weakness. ✨ On the Happy Life. Essay by Seneca the Younger (58 AD); later published in Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners, p. 174 (in the essay The Sympathetic Temperment), 1863.
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All cruelty springs from weakness. ✨ On the Happy Life. Essay by Seneca the Younger (58 AD); later published in Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners, p. 174 (in the essay The Sympathetic Temperment), 1863.

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