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Quemadmodum totum corpus animo deservit et,
cum hoc tanto maius tantoque speciosius sit, ille in
occulto maneat tenuis et in qua sede latitet incertus,
tamen manus, pedes, oculi negotium illi gerunt,
illum haec cutis munit, illius iussu iacemus aut in-
quieti discurrimus, cum ille imperavit, sive avarus
dominus est, mare lucri causa scrutamur, sive
ambitiosus, iam dudum dextram flammis obiecimus
aut voluntarii terram subsiluimus, sic haec immensa
multitudo unius animae circumdata illius spiritu
[p. 368]
regitur, illius ratione flectitur pressura se ac fractura
viribus suis, nisi consilio sustineretur.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 1. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1928.
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