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Date: c. 43 AD
"Meanwhile, hampered by mortal limbs and encompassed by the heavy burden of the flesh, it surveys, as best it can, the things of heaven in swift and winged thought."
preview | full record— Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c. 4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
Date: 58
"As we hunt wild beasts with toil and peril, and even when they are caught find them an anxious possession, for they often tear their keepers to pieces, even so are great pleasures: they turn out to be great evils and take their owners prisoner."
preview | full record— Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c. 4 B.C. - A.D. 65)
