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" Egone ex omnibus mortalibus placui
electusque sum, qui in terris deorum vice fungerer ?
Ego vitae necisque gentibus arbiter; qualem
quisque sortem statumque habeat, in mea manu
positum est ; quid cuique mortalium fortuna datum
velit, meo ore pronuntiat ; ex nostro responso
laetitiae causas populi urbesque concipiunt ; nulla
pars usquam nisi volente propitioque me floret;
haec tot milia gladiorum, quae pax mea comprimit,
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ad nutum meum stringentur ; quas nationes funditus
excidi, quas transportari, quibus libertatem dari,
quibus eripi, quos reges mancipia fieri quorumque
capiti regium circumdari decus oporteat, quae ruant
urbes, quae oriantur, mea iuris dictio est.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 1. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1928.
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