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Quid est ergo beneficium ? Benevola actio
tribuens gaudium capiensque tribuendo in id, quod
facit, prona et sponte sua parata. Itaque non, quid
fiat aut quid detur, refert, sed qua mente, quia beneficium non in eo, quod fit aut datur, consistit, sed in
ipso dantis aut facientis animo.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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