Seneca the Elder Quote

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


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.