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Debet autem in haec se demittere disputatio, ut ad
illa quoque altiora possit exsurgere. Nam et in corpore
nostro ossa nervique et articuli, firmamenta totius et
vitalia, minime speciosa visu, prius ordinantur, deinde
haec, ex quibus omnis in faciem adspectumque decor
est ; post haec omnia, qui maxime oculos rapit, color
ultimus perfecto iam corpore adfunditur.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 1. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1928.
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