quote · Words worth keeping
Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!
Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Seneca
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 32 AD · classical
author lifetime midpoint (-1–65); not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
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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