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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 6
Section 1,780 of 2,141
Canonical reference 106.6
Latin
Perseus canonical Latin TEI
Si adfectus corpora sunt, et morbi animorum, ut avaritia, crudelitas, indurata vitia et in statum inemendabilem adducta; ergo et malitia et species eius omnes, malignitas, invidia, superbia;
French
Baillard 1914
Si les passions sont corps, les maladies de l’âme, l’avarice, la cruauté, les vices endurcis et arrivés à l’état incurable, et encore la perversité et toutes ses espèces, comme la malignité, l’envie et la superbe, le sont aussi.
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
And if emotions are corporeal, so are the diseases of the spirit - such as greed, cruelty, and all the faults which harden in our souls, to such an extent that they get into an incurable state. Therefore evil is also, and all its branches - spite, hatred, pride;
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