Seneca · On the futility of half-way measures

Letters 22.13

I was just putting the seal upon this letter; but it must be broken again, in order that it may go to you with its customary contribution, bearing with it some noble word. And lo, here is one that occurs to my mind; I do not know whether its truth or its nobility of utterance is the greater. “Spoken by whom?” you ask. By Epicurus; for I am still appropriating other men’s belongings.

Seneca, Letters to Lucilius 22.13, translated by Richard Mott Gummere