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[17] Causa autem haec est, quod inanes omnium bonorum sumus, vitae iactura 1 laboramus. Non enim apud nos pars eius ulla subsedit; transmissa est et effluxit. Nemo quam bene vivat, sed quam diu, curat, cum omnibus possit contingere, ut bene vivant, ut diu, nulli. VALE.
1 Hense inserts iactura after vitae.
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, volume 1-3. Seneca. Richard M. Gummere. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1917-1925.
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