Public domain
The work and displayed translations are recorded as public domain or from an open transcription.
Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 24
Section 1,721 of 2,141
Canonical reference 102.24
Latin
Perseus canonical Latin TEI
Nondum caelum nisi ex intervallo pati possumus; proinde intrepidus horam illam decretoriam prospice: non est animo suprema, sed corpori. Quidquid circa te iacet rerum, tamquam hospitalis loci sarcinas specta: transeundum est. Excutit redeuntem natura sicut intrantem.
French
Baillard 1914
Jusque-là, nous ne pouvons souffrir du ciel qu’une vue lointaine.
« Sache donc envisager sans frémir cette heure qui juge la vie ; elle n’est pas la dernière pour l’âme, si elle l’est pour le corps. Tous les objets qui gisent autour de toi, vois-les comme les meubles d’une hôtellerie : tu ne dois que passer. La nature nous fait sortir nus, comme nous sommes entrés.
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
We cannot yet, except at rare intervals, endure the light of heaven; therefore, look forward without fearing to that appointed hour, - the last hour of the body but not of the soul. Survey everything that lies about you, as if it were luggage in a guest-chamber: you must travel on. Nature strips you as bare at your departure as at your entrance.
Concepts in this passage
Care of the soul
View detailed page
Filter the library
Fear
View detailed page
Filter the library
Law
View detailed page
Filter the library
Messiah
View detailed page
Filter the library
Nature
View detailed page
Filter the library
Suffering
View detailed page
Filter the library
Virtue
View detailed page
Filter the library
War and peace
View detailed page
Filter the library
Wisdom
View detailed page
Filter the library