Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Seneca Lucilio suo salutem, section 17

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[17] Quamdiu quidem illi licet suo arbitrio res suas ordinare, se contentus est et ducit uxorem; se contentus est ¹ et liberos tollit; se contentus est et tamen non viveret, si foret sine homine victurus. Ad amicitiam fert illum nulla utilitas sua, sed naturalis inritatio. Nam ut aliarum nobis rerum innata dulcedo est, sic amicitiae. Quomodo solitudinis ² odium est et adpetitio societatis, quomodo hominem homini natura conciliat, sic inest huic quoque rei stimulus, qui nos amicitiarum adpetentes faciat.

1 est added by editors.

2 solitudinis Haupt; solitudo in MSS.

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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