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Seneca

Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 28

Section 753 of 2,141

Canonical reference 66.28

Latin

Perseus canonical Latin TEI

Quare non est ullum bonum altero maius? Quia non est quicquam apto aptius, quia plano nihil est planius. Non potes dicere hoc magis par esse alicui quam illud; ergo nec honesto honestius quicquam est.

French

Baillard 1914

« Mais pourquoi telle vertu n’est-elle pas supérieure à telle autre ? » Par la raison que rien n’est plus convenable que ce qui convient, que rien n’est plus uni que l’uni. Tu ne peux dire : telle vertu est plus que telle autre l’égale d’une troisième ; conséquemment aussi rien n’est plus honnête que l’honnête.

English

Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius

Why is no good greater than any other good? It is because nothing can be more fitting than that which is fitting, and nothing more level than that which is level. You cannot say that one thing is more equal to a given object than another thing; hence also nothing is more honourable than that which is honourable.

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