Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 11

Video non futurum finem in ista materia ullum, nisi quem ipse mihi fecero. Hic itaque conticescam, quantum ad ista, quae sine dubio talia divinavit futura, qualia nunc sunt, qui primus appellavit inpedimenta. Nunc volo paucissimas adhuc interrogationes nostrorum tibi reddere ad virtutem pertinentes, quam satisfacere vitae beatae contendimus.

Mais, je le vois, une telle matière serait sans terme, si moi-même je ne finissais. Je n’en dirai donc pas davantage de ces équipages de route qu’on devinait sans doute devoir être un jour ce qu’ils sont, quand on les appela pour la première fois impedimenta, des embarras. Je veux en revanche t’entretenir encore de quelques syllogismes de notre école au sujet de la vertu, qui, nous le prétendons, satisfait à toutes les conditions du bonheur.

I see that there will be no end in dealing with such a theme unless I make an end myself. So I shall now become silent, at least with reference to superfluous things like these; doubtless the man who first called them “hindrances” had a prophetic inkling that they would be the very sort of thing they now are. At present I should like to deliver to you the syllogisms, as yet very few, belonging to our school and bearing upon the question of virtue, which, in our opinion, is sufficient for the happy life.