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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 18
Section 627 of 2,141
Canonical reference 58.18
Latin
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Tertium genus est eorum, quae proprie sunt; innumerabilia haec sunt, sed extra nostrum posita conspectum. Quae sint, interrogas. Propria Platonis supellex est; ideas vocat, ex quibus omnia, quaecumque videmus, fiunt et ad quas cuncta formantur. Hae inmortales, inmutabiles, inviolabiles sunt.
French
Baillard 1914
Le troisième genre est celui des êtres qui proprement existent : ils sont sans nombre, mais placés hors de notre vue. « Mais quels sont-ils ? » demandes-tu. Une création due à Platon : il appelle idées ce par quoi se fait tout ce que nous voyons et selon quoi tout se façonne. Elles sont immortelles, immutables, hors de toute atteinte. Écoute ce que c’est que l’idée ou ce qu’il en semble à Platon.
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
The third class is made up of those things which exist in the proper sense of the term; they are countless in number, but are situated beyond our sight. “What are these?” you ask. They are Plato’s own furniture, so to speak; he calls them “ideas,” and from them all visible things are created, and according to their pattern all things are fashioned. They are immortal, unchangeable, inviolable.
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