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The hermit from 1986 2y ago

“You are expressing a wish that the whole human race were inoffensive, which may hardly be; moreover, those who would gain by such wrongs not being done are those who would do them, not he who could not suffer from them even if they were done.”

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On The Firmness Of The Wise Man, IV (translated by Aubrey Stewart, 1900)

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The hermit from 1986 2y ago

a more readable way:

“You want all humans to be harmless, which might not be possible. Also, the ones who would benefit from avoiding harm are the ones likely to cause it, not the ones who wouldn't be affected even if it happened.”