Moral Letters to Lucilius Section 6

Si non es sola honestate contentus, necesse est aut quietem adici velis, quam ἀοχλησίαν vocant Graeci, aut voluptatem. Horum alterum utcumque recipi potest. Vacat enim animus molestia liber ad inspectum universi, nihilque illum avocat a contemplatione naturae. Alterum illud, voluptas, bonum pecoris est. Adicimus rationali inrationale, honesto inhonestum. Ad hanc vitam facit titillatio corporis;

Si l’honnête tout seul ne te satisfait pas, nécessairement tu y voudras joindre ou le repos, l’ἀοχλησία des Grecs, ou la volupté. Le premier, à la rigueur, peut s’admettre ; car l’âme du sage est exempte de contrariété ; elle a toute liberté d’étudier l’univers et rien ne l’enlève à la contemplation de la nature. Quant au second point, la volupté, c’est le bonheur de l’animal.

If you are not contented with only that which is honourable, it must follow that you desire in addition either the kind of quiet which the Greeks call “undisturbedness,” or else pleasure. But the former may be attained in any case. For the mind is free from disturbance when it is fully free to contemplate the universe, and nothing distracts it from the contemplation of nature. The second, pleasure, is simply the good of cattle. We are but adding the irrational to the rational, the dishonourable to the honourable. A pleasant physical sensation affects this life of ours;