Atque in officio persolvendo dissimilis est ratio pecuniae debitae, propterea quod pecuniam qui retinet non dissolvit: qui reddidit non habet: gratiam et qui rettulit, habet et qui habet dissolvit.
Moreover, the rendering of a moral obligation stands on an altogether different footing from the payment of a debt in money. He who keeps his money does not discharge his debt, he who pays his debt loses his money; but he who repays a favour keeps it, and he who keeps it repays it by the very act of keeping.
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