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Seneca

Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 14

Section 2,016 of 2,141

Canonical reference 118.14

Latin

Perseus canonical Latin TEI

Ipsa scilicet magnitudine. Nec hoc novum est, quaedam crescendo mutari. Infans fuit; factus est pubes, alia eius proprietas fit. Ille enim inrationalis est, hic rationalis. Quaedam incremento non tantum in maius exeunt, sed in aliud.

French

Baillard 1914

Par sa grandeur même. Il n’est pas nouveau de voir certaines choses changer en s’accroissant. C’était un enfant, c’est maintenant un homme ; son caractère devient autre : car l’enfant n’avait pas de raison, l’homme est raisonnable. Il y a des choses qui par l’accroissement deviennent non-seulement plus grandes, mais tout autres. On répond : « ce qui grandit ne devient pas autre ;

English

Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius

Surely because of its magnitude. It is no new idea that certain objects change as they grow. A person, once a child, becomes a youth; his peculiar quality is transformed; for the child could not reason, but the youth possesses reason. Certain things not only grow in size as they develop, but grow into something else.

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