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


Book I, Chapter I; slightly modified translation from Michael Winterbottom, Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 1 p. 33 - Controversiae

Seneca the Elder Quotes

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

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

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

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