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Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65

Seneca the Younger on enemies

A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy.

Seneca the Younger

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XIX: On worldliness and retirement, Line 11.

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