All our senses should be educated into strength: they are naturally able to endure much, provided that the spirit refrains from spoiling them.
― SenecaOn Anger (Book III, Chapter 37)Modernized wording
AI put this 1889 translation into today's English. Only the wording changed: each rewrite was checked against the original to keep its exact meaning.
“All our senses should be educated into strength: they are naturally able to endure much, provided that the spirit forbears to spoil them.”
Translated by Aubrey Stewart, 1889
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