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[5] Ille sollicitus scit sibi vivere ? 1 Ille enim, quod est primum, scit vivere ? Nam qui res et homines fugit, quem cupiditatum suarum infelicitas [p. 368] relegavit, qui alios feliciores videre non potuit, qui velut timidum atque iners animal metu oblituit, ille sibi non vivit, sed, quod est turpissimum, ventri, somno, libidini. Non continuo sibi vivit, qui nemini. Adeo tamen magna res est constantia et in proposito suo perseverantia, ut habeat auctoritatem inertia quoque pertinax.
1 This and the next sentence are punctuated according to Summers; Hense takes them as declarations, but suggests solus non sollicitus, silice solus is added above the line in V, and in P sollicitus has been corrected to solus.
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, volume 1-3. Seneca. Richard M. Gummere. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1917-1925.
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