Seneca: Our luxuries have condemned us to weakness; we have ceased to be able to do that which we have long declined to do.

Our luxuries have condemned us to weakness; we have ceased to be able to do that — Seneca

Our luxuries have condemned us to weakness; we have ceased to be able to do that which we have long declined to do.

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