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" Dissimilia ponis exempla, quia, qui agrum
meum colit, agro beneficium non dat sed mihi; et
qui domum meam, quo minus ruat, fulcit, praestat
mihi, ipsa enim domus sine sensu est ; debitorem me
habet, quia nullum habet ; et qui agrum meum colit,
non illum, sed me demereri vult. Idem de servo
dicam : mei mancipii res est, mihi servatur ; ideo
ego pro illo debeo. Filius ipse beneficii capax est;
itaque ille accipit, ego beneficio laetor et contingor,
non obligor."
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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