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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
Seneca the Younger
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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger
the Younger Seneca
Lucio Anneo Seneca
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior
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