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Seneca

Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 15

Section 1,085 of 2,141

Canonical reference 81.15

Latin

Perseus canonical Latin TEI

Sed ne in eadem, quae satis scrutati sumus, revolvamur. In hac conparatione beneficii et iniuriae vir bonus iudicabit quidem quod erit aequissimum, sed beneficio favebit; in hanc erit partem proclivior.

French

Baillard 1914

En résumé, et pour ne pas retomber sur des questions suffisamment approfondies, dans cette comparaison du bienfait et de l’injure l’homme de bien décidera en toute équité ; mais il aura plus égard au bienfait ; c’est de ce côté qu’il penchera.

English

Richard M. Gummere · Moral Letters to Lucilius

But we should not slip back into the subject which we have already sufficiently investigated. In this balancing of benefits and injuries, the good man will, to be sure, judge with the highest degree of fairness, but he will incline towards the side of the benefit; he will turn more readily in this direction.

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