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The quote is from Harry Hine's great translation in "Hardship and Happiness" - a volume in the complete edition of Seneca's works published by Chicago University Press and edited by Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch and Martha C. Nussbaum.

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For perspective, in this passage Seneca is expressing a more traditional view on women:

"It would not be unfair for me to say, Serenus, that there is as much of a difference between the Stoics and the rest of those who make a claim to wisdom as there is between females and males. Both contribute to communal life in equal measure, but the one was born to comply, the other to command".

- Seneca, On the Constancy of the Wise Person, 1.1

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