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Quid ergo ? Non erat accipiendum a Claudio, quod
dabatur ? Erat, sed sicut a fortuna, quam scires
posse statim malam fieri. Quid ista inter se mixta
[p. 48]
dividimus ? Non est beneficium, cui deest pars
optima, datum esse iudicio : alioqui pecunia ingens,
si non ratione nec recta voluntate donata est, non
magis beneficium est quam thesaurus. Multa sunt
autem, quae oportet accipere nec debere.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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