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He who is great when he falls is great in his prostration, and is no more an object of contempt than when men tread on the ruins of sacred buildings, which men of piety venerate no less than if they stood.
He who is great when he falls is great in his prostration, and is no more an object of contempt than when men tread on the ruins of sacred buildings, which men of piety venerate no less than if they stood.
Approximate author period: c. 32 AD · classical
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- Approximate author period: c. 32 AD · classical
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 108 · printed citation: Seneca · subject: Greatness
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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