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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 7
Section 607 of 2,141
Canonical reference 57.7
Latin
Perseus canonical Latin TEI
Nunc me putas de Stoicis dicere, qui existimant animam hominis magno pondere extriti permanere non posse et statim spargi, quia non fuerit illi exitus liber? Ego vero non facio; qui hoc dicunt, videntur mihi errare.
French
Baillard 1914
Penses-tu que je parle ici des stoïciens, selon lesquels l’âme de l’homme, écrasée par une grosse masse, ne peut plus sortir et se disperse dans tout le corps, faute de trouver une issue libre ? Nullement ; ceux qui tiennent ce langage me semblent dans l’erreur.
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
Do you suppose that I am now referring to the Stoics, who hold that the soul of a man crushed by a great weight cannot abide, and is scattered forthwith, because it has not had a free opportunity to depart? That is not what I am doing; those who think thus are, in my opinion, wrong.
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Care of the soul
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