VIIII. Verba contentionis
VIIII. Verba contentionis
He said, "I can't bear or endure that burden, which everyone shakes off, and which weighs me down like a donkey loaded with a sack, while its foal follows behind it." As long as I breathe and live, I won’t allow anyone to strike me down through the madness of their own will. I will prevent everything, for I won't allow myself to be trampled like the earth. For I will inflict a much greater injury on them than they could ever cause me, because I am not troubled by the many troubles and pains I bring upon them, which even tear their hearts apart. >
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Et dicebat: c Nimietatem illam nec sustinere, nec sufferre possum, quod > unusquisque pallium suum excutiat, el cum illo me oneret, sicut asella cum sacco oneratur, quam pullus suus subsequitur.
Quamdiu spirabo, et quamdiu vivam, non permittam ut ullus per insaniam voluntatis suae me percutlat.
Omni> bus enim prohibebo, ne sicut terrara conculcent me.
Nam multo majorem injuriam > eis faciam quam mihi inferant, quia me non taedet tantas molestias, tantasque > eonturaelias illis inferre, quod etiam in cordibus suis per has dilacerentur. >
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