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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 15
Section 1,085 of 2,141
Canonical reference 81.15
Latin
Perseus canonical Latin TEI
Sed ne in eadem, quae satis scrutati sumus, revolvamur. In hac conparatione beneficii et iniuriae vir bonus iudicabit quidem quod erit aequissimum, sed beneficio favebit; in hanc erit partem proclivior.
French
Baillard 1914
En résumé, et pour ne pas retomber sur des questions suffisamment approfondies, dans cette comparaison du bienfait et de l’injure l’homme de bien décidera en toute équité ; mais il aura plus égard au bienfait ; c’est de ce côté qu’il penchera.
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
But we should not slip back into the subject which we have already sufficiently investigated. In this balancing of benefits and injuries, the good man will, to be sure, judge with the highest degree of fairness, but he will incline towards the side of the benefit; he will turn more readily in this direction.
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Beneficence
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Family
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Judgment
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Junzi, exemplary person
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Mindfulness
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Reason
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Virtue
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War and peace
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