What do we trust in for safety, if not in mutual help to one another?
― SenecaOn Benefits (Book IV, Chapter 18)Modernized wording
AI put this 1887 translation into today's English. Only the wording changed: each rewrite was checked against the original to keep its exact meaning.
“To what do we trust for safety, if not in mutual good offices one to another?”
Translated by Aubrey Stewart, 1887
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