Fragment XXXI

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Musonius

Those men do not live long who have become accustomed to say to their subjects in defence of whatever they do, not, "It is my duty," but, "It is my will."[1]

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1 He may have in mind the famous statement of Suetonius about Nero: "Negavit quemquam principum scisse quod sibi liceret." (Nero XXXVII).