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Furthermore, Seneca's famous 70th Epistle, which for all intents and purposes is a panegyric to suicide (or freedom), begins with the maxim that "the wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can," and continues by proclaiming that the wise man will consider the possibility of death long before he is under extreme necessitas (70. Such an adjustment is indicated when there is urgent necessity or obvious usefulness (urgens necessitas vel evidens utilitas). 2 See Bruni's introductory remarks to Book Two of the Historiae, 27: "Pervagatiorem nobis historiam superioris libri necessitas fecit. |
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