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Quis est
istorum tam firmae mentis ac solidae, ut tuto apud
eum beneficia deponas ? Alius libidine insanit, alius
abdomini servit ; alius lucri totus est, cuius summam,
non vias, spectat ; alius invidia laborat, alius caeca
ambitione et in gladios irruente. Adice torporem
mentis ac senium et contraria huic inquieti pectoris
agitationem tumultusque perpetuos; adice aestimationem sui nimiam et tumorem, ob quae contemnendus est, insolentem. Quid contumaciam dicam1
in perversa nitentium, quid levitatem semper aliquo
transilientem ?
1 dicam added by Gertz.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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