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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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