Beneficia in volgus cum largiri institueris,In priore versu utrumque reprehendas ; nam nec in vulgum effundenda sunt, et nullius rei, minime beneficiorum, honesta largitio est ; quibus si detraxeris [p. 10] iudicium, desinunt esse beneficia, in aliud quodlibet incident nomen.
perdenda sunt multa, ut semel ponas bene.
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L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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