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Quemadmodum autem curandum est, ut in eos potissimum beneficia conferamus, qui grate responsuri erunt, ita quaedam,
etiam si male de illis sperabitur, faciemus tribuemusque, non solum si iudicabimus ingratos fore, sed si sciemus fuisse. Tamquam si filios alicui restituere
potero magno periculo liberatos sine ullo meo, non
dubitabo. Dignum etiam impendio sanguinis mei
tuebor et in partem discriminis veniam ; indignum
[p. 34]
si eripere latronibus potero clamore sublato, salutarem
vocem homini non pigebit emittere.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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