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“Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.”
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- Book
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 8eab286071b0be7821412f40df522b4d59b0460804232fa315767e1c2989585a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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