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[16] Non est quod nos tumulis metiaris et his monumentis, quae viam disparia praetexunt; aequat omnes cinis. Inpares nascimur, pares morimur. Idem de urbibus quod de urbium incolis dico: tam Ardea capta quam Roma est. Conditor ille iuris humani non natalibus 1 nos nec nominum claritate distinxit, nisi dum sumus. Ubi vero ad finem mortalium ventum est, "discede," inquit, "ambitio! omnium, quae terram premunt, siremps 2 lex esto." Ad omnia patienda pares sumus; nemo altero fragilior est, nemo in crastinum sui certior.
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, volume 1-3. Seneca. Richard M. Gummere. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1917-1925.
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