"[It would seem that] you must inevitably either hate or imitate the world. But the right thing is to shun both courses: you should neither become like the bad because they are many, nor be an enemy of the many because they are unlike you."
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Seneca the Younger, Letter 7 (Robin Campbell trans.).
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