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Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 10
Section 66 of 2,141
Canonical reference 8.10
Latin
Perseus canonical Latin TEI
Hunc sensum a te dici non paulo melius et adstrictis memini: Non est tuum, fortuna quod fecit tuum. Illud etiamnunc melius dictum a te non praeteribo: Dari bonum quod potuit, auferri potest. Hoc non inputo in solutum; dedi de tuo tibi. Vale.
French
Baillard 1914
Tu l’as dit en un vers beaucoup meilleur et plus serré, je me le rappelle :
Ce qu’a fait le hasard pour toi, n’est pas à toi.
Et ce trait, plus heureux encore, et que je ne puis omettre :
On peut ravir le bien que l’on a pu donner.
Je n’impute point ceci à ma décharge : je te paye sur ton bien.
English
Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius
I recall that you yourself expressed this idea much more happily and concisely: What Chance has made yours is not really yours. And a third, spoken by you still more happily, shall not be omitted: The good that could be given, can be removed. I shall not charge this up to the expense account, because I have given it to you from your own stock. Farewell.
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