Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

Seneca the Younger

• Soul
• Struggle
• Destiny
• Fate
• Surrender

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• It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Soul
  • Struggle
  • Destiny