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"At quomodo ingratum vocas eo non reddito, quod
negas esse beneficium ? " Quaedam, etiam si vera
non sunt, propter similitudinem eodem vocabulo
comprehensa sunt. Sic pyxidem et argenteam et
auream dicimus ; sic inlitteratum non ex toto rudem,
[p. 328]
sed ad litteras altiores non perductum ; sic, qui male
vestitum et pannosum vidit, nudum vidisse se dicit.
Beneficia ista non sunt, habent tamen beneficii
speciem.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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