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Seneca the Younger Quotes: If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
         

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.


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