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" Beneficium,"
[p. 348]
inquit, " vocas, quo ille offenditur, quo torquetur ? "
Multa beneficia tristem frontem et asperam habent,
quemadmodum secare et urere, ut sanes, et vinclis
coercere. Non est spectandum, an doleat aliquis
beneficio accepto, sed an gaudere debeat ; non est
malus denarius, quem barbarus et ignarus formae
publicae reiecit. Beneficium et odit et accepit, si
modo id prodest, si is, qui dabat, ut prodesset, dedit.
Nihil refert, an bonam rem malo animo quis accipiat.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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