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" In infinitum ius," inquit, " me obligas, cum
dicis : ' et nostris ' ; itaque pone aliquem finem. Qui
filio beneficium dat, ut dicis, et patri eius dat: primum, de quo quaero. Deinde illud utique mihi determinari volo : si et patri beneficium datur, numquid
et fratri ? Numquid et patruo ? Numquid et avo ?
Numquid et uxori et socero ? Dic mihi, ubi debeam
desinere, quousque personarum senem sequar."
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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