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beneficia in scelus versa sunt,
et sanguini eorum non parcitur, pro quibus sanguis
fundendus est ; gladio ac venenis beneficia sequimur.
Ipsi patriae manus adferre et fascibus illam suis premere potentia ac dignitas est ; humili se ac depresso loco putat stare, quisquis non supra rem publicam
stetit ; accepti ab illa exercitus in ipsam convertuntur,
et imperatoria contio est :
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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