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" Quidquid praestiti patri, etiam si magnum
[p. 184]
est, infra aestimationem paterni muneris est, quia non
esset, si non genuisset." Isto modo etiam, si quis
patrem meum aegrum ac moriturum sanaverit, nihil
praestare ei potero, quod non beneficio eius minus sit ;
non enim genuisset me pater, nisi sanatus esset. Sed
vide, ne illud verius sit aestimari, an id, quod potui,
et id, quod feci, meum sit, mearum virium, meae
voluntatis.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 3. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1935.
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