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Dico me
tibi obligatum pro filio, non quia sum, sed quia volo
me offerre tibi debitorem voluntarium. At pervenit
ad me summa ex incolumitate eius voluptas, summa
utilitas, et orbitatis gravissimum vulnus effugi. Non
quaeritur nunc, an profueris mihi, sed an beneficium
dederis ; prodest enim et animal et lapis et herba, nec
tamen beneficium dant, quod numquam datur nisi a
volente.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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