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Sequitur, ut dicamus, quae beneficia danda
sint et quemadmodum. Primum demus necessaria,
deinde utilia, deinde iucunda, utique mansura. Incipiendum est autem a necessariis ; aliter enim ad
animum pervenit, quod vitam continet, aliter, quod
exornat aut instruit. Potest in eo aliquis fastidiosus
esse aestimator, quo facile cariturus est, de quo dicere
licet : " Recipe, non desidero ; meo contentus sum."
Interim non reddere tantum libet, quod acceperis,
sed abicere.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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