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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 6
Section 681 of 2,141
Canonical reference 63.6
Latin
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Si illi credimus, Amicos incolumes cogitare melle ac placenta frui est; eorum, qui fuerunt, retractatio non sine acerbitate quadam iuvat. Quis autem negaverit haec acria quoque et habentia austeritatis aliquid stomachum excitare?
French
Baillard 1914
mais après quelque temps toute âpreté s’émousse, et le plaisir nous arrive sans mélange. »
Si nous l’en croyons, « penser à nos amis vivants, c’est savourer le miel et les gâteaux les plus exquis ; se ressouvenir de ceux qui ont cessé d’être est une satisfaction quelque peu acerbe. Or on ne contestera pas que l’acidité aussi et toutes les saveurs d’un genre sévère stimulent l’estomac. » Moi, je pense autrement :
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
If we take the word of Attalus for it, “to think of friends who are alive and well is like enjoying a meal of cakes and honey; the recollection of friends who have passed away gives a pleasure that is not without a touch of bitterness. Yet who will deny that even these things, which are bitter and contain an element of sourness, do serve to arouse the stomach?”
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