Lettres à Lucilius Section 14

Tertium illud genus extra multa et magna vitia est, sed non extra omnia. Effugit avaritiam, sed iram adhuc sentit; iam non sollicitatur libidine, etiamnunc ambitione; iam non concupiscit, sed adhuc timet. Et in ipso metu ad quaedam satis firmus est, quibusdam cedit. Mortem contemnit, dolorem reformidat.

La troisième classe a laissé derrière elle des vices graves et nombreux, mais non pas tous les vices ; libre de l’avarice, elle reste sujette à la colère, l’aiguillon de la chair ne la tourmente plus, mais l’ambition ne l’a pas quittée ; elle ne convoite plus, mais elle craint encore ; ces craintes mêmes lui laissent assez de fermeté pour certaines choses, bien qu’elle
faiblisse pour d’autres ; elle méprise la mort, et la douleur l’épouvante.

The third class are beyond the reach of many of the vices and particularly of the great vices, but not beyond the reach of all. They have escaped avarice, for example, but still feel anger; they no longer are troubled by lust, but are still troubled by ambition; they no longer have desire, but they still have fear. And just because they fear, although they are strong enough to withstand certain things, there are certain things to which they yield; they scorn death, but are in terror of pain.