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Quem
magis admiraberis, quam qui imperat sibi, quam qui
se habet in potestate ? Gentes facilius est barbaras
impatientesque arbitrii alieni regere, quam animum
suum continere et tradere sibi. Platon, inquit, agit
[p. 310]
Socrati gratias, quod ab illo didicit ; quare Socrates
sibi non agat, quod ipse se docuit ? M. Cato ait :
' Quod tibi deerit, a te ipso mutuare.' Quare donare
mihi non possim, si commodare possum ? Innumerabilia sunt, in quibus consuetudo nos dividit ;
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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