Letters to Atticus Passage 3

sed haec fors viderit, ea quae talibus in rebus plus quam ratio potest. nos autem id videamus quod in nobis ipsis esse debet, ut quicquid accideret fortiter et sapienter feramus et accidisse hominibus meminerimus, nosque cum multum litterae tum non minimum Idus quoque Martiae consolentur.

But chance must see to these matters, since in such circumstances it has more power than reason. Let us attend instead to what ought to lie within ourselves: that whatever happens, we bear it bravely and wisely, remember that it has happened to human beings, and allow ourselves to be consoled greatly by literature and not least by the Ides of March.

Mais que le sort veille à ces choses, puisqu’en pareilles circonstances il a plus de pouvoir que la raison. Veillons, nous, à ce qui doit dépendre de nous-mêmes: supporter avec courage et sagesse tout ce qui arrivera, et nous souvenir que cela est arrivé à des hommes. Puissent les lettres, qui nous consolent beaucoup, et les ides de mars, qui ne nous consolent pas peu, nous soutenir.