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Tibi insanabilis animus et sceleribus scelera contexens, et
iam non causis, quae numquam malo defuturae sunt,
impelleris, sed satis tibi est magna ad peccandum
causa peccare, perbibisti nequitiam et ita visceribus
immiscuisti, ut nisi cum ipsis exire non possit; olim
miser mori quaeris ; bene de te merebimur, auferemus tibi istam qua vexas, vexaris insaniam et per
tua alienaque volutato supplicia id quod unum tibi
bonum superest repraesentabimus, mortem. Quare
irascar cui cum maxime prosum ? Interim optimum
misericordiae genus est occidere.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 1. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1928.
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