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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 10
Section 2,029 of 2,141
Canonical reference 119.10
Latin
Perseus canonical Latin TEI
At hic, qui se ad id, quod exigit natura, composuit, non tantum extra sensum est paupertatis, sed extra metum. Sed ut scias, quam difficile sit res suas ad naturalem modum coartare, hic ipse, quem circa dicimus, quem tu vocas pauperem, habet aliquid et supervacui.
French
Baillard 1914
qu’il apporte ses registres, qu’il suppute à la fois tout ce qu’il a et tout ce qu’il espère : à mon sens il est pauvre ; au tien même il peut l’être un jour. Mais l’homme qui s’accommode aux exigences de la seule nature, loin qu’il ressente la pauvreté, ne la craint même pas. Vois pourtant comme il est difficile de se réduire au pied de la nature : celui même que nous appelons l’homme de la nature et que tu nommes pauvre, celui-là aussi a du superflu.
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
He, however, who has arranged his affairs according to nature’s demands, is free from the fear, as well as from the sensation, of poverty. And in order that you may know how hard it is to narrow one’s interests down to the limits of nature - even this very person of whom we speak, and whom you call poor, possesses something actually superfluous.
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