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Omnis vita servitium est. Adsuescendum est itaque
condicioni suae et quam minimum de illa querendum
et quicquid habet circa se commodi adprendendum ;
nihil tam acerbum est, in quo non aequus animus
solacium inveniat. Exiguae saepe areae in multos
usus discribentis arte patuerunt et quamvis angustum
pedem 1 dispositio fecit habitabilem. Adhibe ratio-
nem difficultatibus ; possunt et dura molliri et an-
gusta laxari et gravia scite ferentis minus premere.
1 angustum pedem A: angustam sedem Cornelissen. i.e., of the custodian who is chained to his prisoner, as Seneca shows in Epistles, v. 7: "quemadmodum eadem catena et custodiam et militem copulat, sic ista quae tam dissimilia sunt, pariter incedunt."
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 2. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1932.
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