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Itaque nec liberalis
est, qui sibi donat, nec clemens, qui sibi ignoscit, nec
misericors, qui malis suis tangitur. Quod aliis praestare liberalitas est, clementia, misericordia, sibi
praestare natura est. Beneficium res voluntaria est,
at prodesse sibi necessarium est. Quo quis plura
beneficia dedit, beneficentior est; quis umquam
laudatus est, quod sibi ipse fuisset auxilio ? Quod
se eripuisset latronibus ? Nemo sibi beneficium dat,
non magis quam hospitium ; nemo sibi donat, non
magis quam credit.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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