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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 11
Section 1,797 of 2,141
Canonical reference 107.11
Latin
Perseus canonical Latin TEI
Duc, o parens celsique dominator poli, Quocumque placuit; nulla parendi mora est. Adsum inpiger. Fac nolle, comitabor gemens Maiusque patiar, facere quod licuit bono. Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt.
French
Baillard 1914
Roi des champs étoilés, ô père, sois mon guide :
Où tu veux, sans tarder et d’un pas intrépide
Je te suis. C’est la loi, que j’en murmure ou non ;
Et le destin s’impose au méchant comme au bon :
Je cède, il me conduit ; je résiste, il m’entraîne.
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
Lead me, O Master of the lofty heavens, My Father, whithersoever thou shalt wish. I shall not falter, but obey with speed. And though I would not, I shall go, and suffer, In sin and sorrow what I might have done In noble virtue. Aye, the willing soul Fate leads, but the unwilling drags along.
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