A great fortune is a great slavery.

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A great fortune is a great slavery.

In the original Latin

Magna servitus est magna fortuna

Seneca

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Topic

Wealth as burden Downsides of wealth Wealth

Statement type

Paradox

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Philosophical literature

Medium

Essay

Time

44 Classical antiquity

Person

Seneca

Provenance

Citation

Seneca the Younger. Ad Polybium De Consolatione [Of Consolation, To Polybius]. c. 44 AD, ch. 6, sect. 5.

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