Misericordia Quotes

Omnes homines, patres conscripti, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira atque misericordia vacuos esse decet.

— LI.1

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Perierat totus orbis, nisi iram finiret misericordia.

— The whole world would have been destroyed if pity did not put an end to anger.
— Bk. 1, ch. 1, sect. 6; translation from Michael Winterbottom (trans.) Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 1 p. 33.

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