When you have done a good deed and another has received it, why do you still ask for a third thing, as fools do, namely, that you may be thought to have done a good deed or that you may be rewarded?

Stoic philosophy, Roman Emperor

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Meditations, Book 7, Section 73

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c. 161-180 AD

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Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5238/5238-h/5238-h.htm

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