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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 22
Section 1,719 of 2,141
Canonical reference 102.22
Latin
Perseus canonical Latin TEI
Deinde artam aetatem sibi dari non sinit: omnes, inquit, anni mei sunt. Nullum saeculum magnis ingeniis clusum est, nullum non cogitationi pervium tempus. Cum venerit dies ille, qui mixtum hoc divini humanique secernat, corpus hic, ubi inveni, relinquam, ipse me dis reddam. Nec nunc sine illis sum, sed gravi terrenoque detineor.
French
Baillard 1914
Et elle ne souffre pas qu’on lui circonscrive son âge, elle se dit : « Toutes les années m’appartiennent ; point de siècle fermé au génie, point de temps impénétrable à la pensée. Quand sera venu le jour solennel où ce corps, mélange de divin et d’humain, se dissoudra, je laisserai mon argile où je l’ai prise, et moi, je me réunirai aux dieux. Ici même je ne suis pas sans communiquer avec eux ; mais ma lourde et terrestre prison me retient.
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
Again, the soul will not put up with a narrow span of existence. “All the years,” says the soul, “are mine; no epoch is closed to great minds; all Time is open for the progress of thought. When the day comes to separate the heavenly from its earthly blend, I shall leave the body here where I found it, and shall of my own volition betake myself to the gods. I am not apart from them now, but am merely detained in a heavy and earthly prison.”
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Anger
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Care of the soul
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Family
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God
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Messiah
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Time
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