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Ad rem pertinet quaerere hoc loco, quid sit
misericordia; plerique enim ut virtutem eam
laudant et bonum hominem vocant misericordem.
Et haec vitium animi est. Utraque circa severitatem
circaque clementiam posita sunt, quae vitare debemus ; per speciem enim severitatis in crudelitatem
[p. 438]
incidimus,1 per speciem clementiae in misericordiam.
In hoc leviore periculo erratur, sed par error est a
vero recedendum.
1 per ... incidimus supplied by Gertz.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 1. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1928.
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