Public domain
The work and displayed translations are recorded as public domain or from an open transcription.
Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 12
Section 1,798 of 2,141
Canonical reference 107.12
Latin
Perseus canonical Latin TEI
Sic vivamus, sic loquamur; paratos nos inveniat atque inpigros fatum. Hic est magnus animus, qui se ei tradidit; at contra ille pusillus et degener, qui obluctatur et de ordine mundi male existimat et emendare mavult deos quam se. Vale.
French
Baillard 1914
Ainsi doit-on vivre et parler. Que le destin nous trouve prêts et déterminés. Il n’est d’âme grande que celle qui s’abandonne à Dieu : c’est aux âmes étroites et dégénérées à tenter la lutte, à calomnier l’ordre de l’univers, à vouloir réformer la Providence, plutôt qu’elles-mêmes.
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
Let us live thus, and speak thus; let Fate find us ready and alert. Here is your great soul - the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself. Farewell.
Concepts in this passage
Care of the soul
View detailed page
Filter the library
Education
View detailed page
Filter the library
Ether and field
View detailed page
Filter the library
God
View detailed page
Filter the library
Law
View detailed page
Filter the library
Virtue
View detailed page
Filter the library
Wisdom
View detailed page
Filter the library