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Musonius
What indictment can we make against tyrants when we ourselves are much worse than they? For we have the same impulses as theirs but not the same opportunity to indulge them.[1]
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1 Seneca (De ira II, 31, 3) makes a similar indictment of human nature. Cf. also Juvenal Sat. X, 96 f.