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Non est dubium, quin servus beneficium dare
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possit cuilibet ; quare ergo non et domino suo possit ?
" Quia non potest," inquit, " creditor domini sui fieri,
si pecuniam illi dederit. Alioqui cotidie dominum
suum obligat ; peregrinantem sequitur, aegro ministrat, rus eius labore summo colit ; omnia tamen ista,
quae alio praestante beneficia dicerentur, praestante
servo ministeria sunt. Beneficium enim id est, quod
quis dedit, cum illi liceret et non dare. Servus autem
non habet negandi potestatem ; ita non praestat, sed
paret, nec id se fecisse iactat, quod non facere non
potuit."
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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