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Quote from Lucius Annaeus Seneca,


"Should I be surprised that dangers which have always surrounded me should at last attack me? A great part of mankind, when about to sail, do not think of a storm. I shall never be ashamed of a reporter of bad news in a good cause."


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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (more quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca or books by/about Lucius Annaeus Seneca)


(4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, "Seneca the Younger"

Source:

On Tranquility of the Mind, A letter to Serenus as translated in Tranquillity of Mind and Providence (1900) by William Bell Langsdorf.

Categories:

Indifference, Principle, Speech, Truth

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