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Si vero
bonam fidem perfidiae suppliciis adfici videt, non
descendit e fastigio et supra poenam suam consistit.
" Habeo," inquit, " quod volui, quod petii ; nec
paenitet nec paenitebit nec ulla iniquitate me eo
fortuna perducet, ut hanc vocem audiat : ' Quid mihi
volui ? Quid nunc mihi prodest bona voluntas ? ' "
Prodest et in eculeo, prodest et in igne ; qui si
singulis membris admoveatur et paulatim vivum
corpus circumeat, licet ipsum cor plenum bona conscientia stillet : placebit illi ignis, per quem bona
fides conlucebit.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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