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Ubi de officio agitur,
quod uterque a sua parte esse quam plenissimum
cupit, si alter plus potuit et ad manum habuit
materiam sufficientem animo suo, si illi, quantum
conatus est, fortuna permisit, alter autem voluntate
par est, etiam si minora, quam accepit, reddidit aut
omnia non reddidit, sed vult reddere et toto in hoc
intentus est animo, non magis victus est, quam qui
in armis moritur, quem occidere facilius hostis potuit
quam avertere.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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