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“Pyrrhus: Lex nulla capto parcit aut poenam impedit.Agamemnon: Quod non vetat lex, hoc vetat fieri pudor.Pyr: Quodcumque libuit facere victori licet.Agam.: Minimum decet libere cui multum licet.”

— Seneca the Younger

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Pyrrhus: No law the wretched captive's life doth spare.Agamemnon: What law forbids not, let this shame forbid.Pyrrhus: 'Tis victor's right to do whate'er he will.Pyrrhus: Then should he will the least who most can do.

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Younger, Seneca the. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Seneca the Younger. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger

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