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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 7
Section 1,891 of 2,141
Canonical reference 113.7
Latin
Perseus canonical Latin TEI
Iustitia quid est? inquit. Animus quodammodo se habens. Itaque si animus animal est, et iustitia. Minime. Haec enim habitus animi est et quaedam vis; idem animus in varias figuras convertitur et non totiens animal aliud est, quotiens aliud facit. Nec illud, quod fit ab animo, animal est.
French
Baillard 1914
« Qu’est-ce que la justice ? C’est l’âme disposée de certaine manière. Partant, si l’âme est animal, la justice l’est aussi. » Point du tout ! Cette justice est une manière d’être, une faculté de l’âme. Cette même âme se modifie sous diverses formes et n’est pas un autre animal chaque fois qu’elle fait autre chose ; et tout ce qui procède d’elle n’est point animal.
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
“What is Justice?” people say. Justice is a soul that maintains itself in a certain attitude. “Then if the soul is a living being, so is Justice.” By no means. For Justice is really a state, a kind of power, of the soul; and this same soul is transformed into various likenesses and does not become a different kind of living thing as often as it acts differently. Nor is the result of soul-action a living thing.
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