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Lectures and Fragments · Fragment 23
Musonius Rufus · Fragments

Fragment 23

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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

Musonius Rufus, Lectures and Fragments, Fragment 23, translated by Cora E. Lutz (1947). The Stoic Library.