I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
Seneca the YoungerTo preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
Seneca the YoungerTo strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
Seneca the Younger