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Quid opus est partes deflere ? Tota flebilis
vita est; urgebunt nova incommoda, priusquam veteribus satis feceris. Moderandum est itaque vobis
maxime, quae immoderate fertis, et in multos dolores
humani pectoris vis 1 dispensanda. Quae deinde ista
suae publicaeque condicionis oblivio est ? Mortalis
nata es, mortales peperisti. Putre ipsa fluidumque
corpus et causis morborum repetita 2 sperasti tam
imbecilla materia solida et aeterna gestasse ?
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 2. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1932.
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