Si animalia, inquam, considerem quae habent aliquam volendi nolendique naturam, nihil invenio quod nullis extra cogentibus abiciant manendi intentionem et ad interitum sponte festinent.
If I consider living things, I answered, which have some natural ability to want or not to want a thing, I find nothing which with no forces working from outside is such as to cast aside the effort to remain alive, and hasten voluntarily to its own destruction.
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