Seneca, De Clementia, Liber I, chapter 16, section 4

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[4] Numquidnam aequum est gravius homini et durius imperari, quam imperatur animalibus mutis ? Atqui equum non crebris verberibus exterret domandi peritus magister; fiet enim formidolosus et contumax, nisi eum blandiente tactu permulseris.

L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 1. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1928.

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