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Elige itaque, utrum exemplum putes probabilius.
Si illud prius sequi vis, eximes te numero vivorum :
aversaberis et alienos liberos et tuos ipsumque quem 1
desideras ; triste matribus omen occurres ; volup-
tates honestas, permissas, tamquam parum decoras
fortunae tuae reicies ; invisa haerebis in luce et aetati
tuae, quod non praecipitet te quam primum et finiat,
infestissima eris ; quod turpissimum alienissimumque
est animo tuo in meliorem noto partem, ostendes te
vivere nolle, mori non posse.
1 quem added by Madvig.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 2. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1932.
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