Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

Seneca the Younger

• Death
• Fear
• Insanity
• Driven
• Blindness

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• Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Insanity