SPACEDK · DAILY CLASSICS · 07:00 CST
The Daily Classics Library
At 7:00 every morning in Beijing, 500 complete sayings, verses, reflections, or stories are selected from edition- and rights-verified books, then read again in historical and contemporary context.
Verification rule: Unsourced internet quotations are excluded. Every item records its work, authorship or traditional attribution, translator, locator, source revision, and rights status. “Complete” means a self-contained saying, verse, reflection, or story—not copying an entire protected modern book.
Pensées
Pensées · Section V · 329
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 121, “Pensées · Pensées · Section ……9 · Section V · fragment 329,” can mean this: The first thought in your mind may be wrong. Look for clues and think again.
Try this: Give gentle care to a person, animal, or plant today.
Important reminder: This is one reading, not a rule that is always right. Tell a trusted adult about danger, bullying, or pain.
For adults: historical and edition context
Pascal left these unfinished fragments amid seventeenth-century French scientific development, religious controversy, and illness, probably for a projected Christian apology. Modern grouping and numbering reflect Brunschvicg’s editorial decisions rather than a finished authorial order. Analysis distinguishes religious argument, mathematics, historical evidence, and personal experience.
- Period
- 17th-century France; early modern science and religious controversy
- Region
- France
- Work date
- Fragments written mainly c. 1657–1662; Brunschvicg edition published 1897–1925
- Edition
- Léon Brunschvicg edition, Section V
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
Raison des effets. — La faiblesse de l’homme est la cause de tant de beautés qu’on établit, comme de savoir bien jouer du luth. Ce n’est un mal qu’à cause de notre faiblesse.
Pensées
Pensées · Section VIII · 570
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 122, “Pensées · Pensées · Section …… Section VIII · fragment 570,” can mean this: The first thought in your mind may be wrong. Look for clues and think again.
Try this: After a task, check whether it truly helped someone.
Important reminder: This is one reading, not a rule that is always right. Tell a trusted adult about danger, bullying, or pain.
For adults: historical and edition context
Pascal left these unfinished fragments amid seventeenth-century French scientific development, religious controversy, and illness, probably for a projected Christian apology. Modern grouping and numbering reflect Brunschvicg’s editorial decisions rather than a finished authorial order. Analysis distinguishes religious argument, mathematics, historical evidence, and personal experience.
- Period
- 17th-century France; early modern science and religious controversy
- Region
- France
- Work date
- Fragments written mainly c. 1657–1662; Brunschvicg edition published 1897–1925
- Edition
- Léon Brunschvicg edition, Section VIII
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
Il faut mettre au chapitre des Fondements ce qui est en celui des Figuratifs touchant la cause des figures : pourquoi Jésus-Christ prophétisé en son premier avènement ; pourquoi prophétisé obscurément en la manière.
Dhammapada
Dhammapada · XV:206
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 123, “Dhammapada · Dhammapada · XV:206 · XV:206,” can mean this: Ask one more question before making a judgment.
Try this: Give gentle care to a person, animal, or plant today.
Important reminder: Old books can reflect old limits. A child does not need to follow every old rule; ask a trusted adult.
For adults: historical and edition context
The Dhammapada is an anthology of Pali Buddhist verses shaped by long transmission and compilation, so a verifiable occasion cannot be assigned to each verse. This source uses Max Müller’s 1881 translation and keeps its nineteenth-century philological vocabulary visible.
- Period
- Ancient Indian Buddhist tradition; 1881 English translation
- Region
- South Asia / United Kingdom edition
- Work date
- Ancient compilation of uncertain date; translation published 1881
- Edition
- Dhammapada, translated by F. Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East, Vol. X
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
The sight of the elect (Arya) is good, to live with them is always happiness; if a man does not see fools, he will be truly happy.
Dhammapada
Dhammapada · XXII:313
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 124, “Dhammapada · Dhammapada · XX……mapada · XXII:313 · XXII:313,” can mean this: Everyone meets hard choices. We can pause before acting.
Try this: Before choosing, count to three and ask, “Is there another way?”
Important reminder: Old books can reflect old limits. A child does not need to follow every old rule; ask a trusted adult.
For adults: historical and edition context
The Dhammapada is an anthology of Pali Buddhist verses shaped by long transmission and compilation, so a verifiable occasion cannot be assigned to each verse. This source uses Max Müller’s 1881 translation and keeps its nineteenth-century philological vocabulary visible.
- Period
- Ancient Indian Buddhist tradition; 1881 English translation
- Region
- South Asia / United Kingdom edition
- Work date
- Ancient compilation of uncertain date; translation published 1881
- Edition
- Dhammapada, translated by F. Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East, Vol. X
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
If anything is to be done, let a man do it, let him attack it vigorously! A careless pilgrim only scatters the dust of his passions more widely.
Dhammapada
Dhammapada · XXV:409
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 125, “Dhammapada · Dhammapada · XXV:409 · XXV:409,” can mean this: Knowing what is right matters, and doing it matters too.
Try this: If you disagree, use calm words to explain why.
Important reminder: Do not judge a person from one sentence. Check what happened and think with a trusted adult.
For adults: historical and edition context
The Dhammapada is an anthology of Pali Buddhist verses shaped by long transmission and compilation, so a verifiable occasion cannot be assigned to each verse. This source uses Max Müller’s 1881 translation and keeps its nineteenth-century philological vocabulary visible.
- Period
- Ancient Indian Buddhist tradition; 1881 English translation
- Region
- South Asia / United Kingdom edition
- Work date
- Ancient compilation of uncertain date; translation published 1881
- Edition
- Dhammapada, translated by F. Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East, Vol. X
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
Him I call indeed a Brahmana who takes nothing in the world that is not given him, be it long or short, small or large, good or bad.
Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Seneca · LIII. §6
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 126, “Epistulae morales ad Luciliu……II. §6 · Liber VI · LIII. §6,” can mean this: Real effort makes something better. It is not only looking busy.
Try this: Tell a trusted adult one thing you learned today.
Important reminder: Do not judge a person from one sentence. Check what happened and think with a trusted adult.
For adults: historical and edition context
Seneca’s letters to Lucilius are usually dated to about 62–65 CE, late in Nero’s reign. They combine counsel with deliberate literary composition. Claims about freedom, wealth, and death must be read alongside Roman political danger, hierarchy, and slavery. This item preserves the original Latin at a fixed Wikisource revision.
- Period
- Roman Empire, 1st century CE
- Region
- Roman Empire
- Work date
- Commonly dated to Seneca’s final years, c. 62–65 CE
- Edition
- Latin Wikisource, Liber VI
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
[6] Levis aliquem motiuncula decipit; sed cum crevit et vera febris exarsit, etiam duro et perpessicio confessionem exprimit. Pedes dolent, articuli punctiunculas sentiunt: adhuc dissimulamus et aut talum extorsisse dicimus nos aut in exercitatione aliqua laborasse. Dubio et incipiente morbo quaeritur nomen, qui ubi ut talaria coepit intendere et utrosque distortos pedes fecit, necesse est podagram fateri.
Pensées
Pensées · Section X · 684
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 127, “Pensées · Pensées · Section ……4 · Section X · fragment 684,” can mean this: The first thought in your mind may be wrong. Look for clues and think again.
Try this: After a task, check whether it truly helped someone.
Important reminder: This is one reading, not a rule that is always right. Tell a trusted adult about danger, bullying, or pain.
For adults: historical and edition context
Pascal left these unfinished fragments amid seventeenth-century French scientific development, religious controversy, and illness, probably for a projected Christian apology. Modern grouping and numbering reflect Brunschvicg’s editorial decisions rather than a finished authorial order. Analysis distinguishes religious argument, mathematics, historical evidence, and personal experience.
- Period
- 17th-century France; early modern science and religious controversy
- Region
- France
- Work date
- Fragments written mainly c. 1657–1662; Brunschvicg edition published 1897–1925
- Edition
- Léon Brunschvicg edition, Section X
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
Contradiction. — On ne peut faire une bonne physionomie qu’en accordant toutes nos contrariétés, et il ne suffit pas de suivre une suite de qualités accordantes sans accorder les contraires. Pour entendre le sens d’un auteur, il faut accorder tous les passages contraires. Ainsi, pour entendre l’Écriture, il faut avoir un sens dans lequel tous les passages contraires s’accordent. Il ne suffit pas d’en avoir un qui convienne à plusieurs passages accordants, mais d’en avoir un qui accorde les passages même contraires. Tout auteur a un sens auquel tous les passages contraires s’accordent, ou il n’a point de sens du tout. On ne peut pas dire cela de l’Écriture et des prophètes ; ils avaient assurément trop bon sens. Il faut donc en chercher un qui accorde toutes les contrariétés. Le véritable sens n’est donc pas celui des Juifs ; mais en Jésus-Christ toutes les contradictions sont accordées. Les Juifs ne sauraient accorder la cessation de la royauté et principauté, prédite par Osée, avec la prophétie de Jacob. Si on prend la loi, les sacrifices, et le royaume, pour réalités, on ne peut accorder tous les passages. Il faut donc par nécessité qu’ils ne soient que figures. On ne saurait pas même accorder les passages d’un même auteur, ni d’un même livre, ni quelquefois d’un même chapitre, ce qui marque trop quel était le sens de l’auteur ; comme quand Ézéchiel, chap. xx, dit qu’on vivra dans les commandements de Dieu et qu’on n’y vivra pas.
Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Seneca · IV. SENECA LUCILIO SUO SALUTEM §1
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 128, “Epistulae morales ad Luciliu……ENECA LUCILIO SUO SALUTEM §1,” can mean this: Real effort makes something better. It is not only looking busy.
Try this: Today, listen until another person finishes, then answer.
Important reminder: Being brave does not mean taking unsafe risks. Leave danger and find a trusted adult.
For adults: historical and edition context
Seneca’s letters to Lucilius are usually dated to about 62–65 CE, late in Nero’s reign. They combine counsel with deliberate literary composition. Claims about freedom, wealth, and death must be read alongside Roman political danger, hierarchy, and slavery. This item preserves the original Latin at a fixed Wikisource revision.
- Period
- Roman Empire, 1st century CE
- Region
- Roman Empire
- Work date
- Commonly dated to Seneca’s final years, c. 62–65 CE
- Edition
- Latin Wikisource, Liber I
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
[1] Persevera ut coepisti et quantum potes propera, quo diutius frui emendato animo et composito possis. Frueris quidem etiam dum emendas, etiam dum componis: alia tamen illa voluptas est quae percipitur ex contemplatione mentis ab omni labe purae et splendidae.
Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Seneca · CX. SENECA LUCILIO SUO SALUTEM §18
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 129, “Epistulae morales ad Luciliu……NECA LUCILIO SUO SALUTEM §18,” can mean this: After learning something, practise it and ask for help when needed.
Try this: If something is hard today, say, “Please help me.”
Important reminder: Old books can reflect old limits. A child does not need to follow every old rule; ask a trusted adult.
For adults: historical and edition context
Seneca’s letters to Lucilius are usually dated to about 62–65 CE, late in Nero’s reign. They combine counsel with deliberate literary composition. Claims about freedom, wealth, and death must be read alongside Roman political danger, hierarchy, and slavery. This item preserves the original Latin at a fixed Wikisource revision.
- Period
- Roman Empire, 1st century CE
- Region
- Roman Empire
- Work date
- Commonly dated to Seneca’s final years, c. 62–65 CE
- Edition
- Latin Wikisource, Liber XIX
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
[18] Ad veras potius te converte divitias; disce parvo esse contentus et illam vocem magnus atque animosus exclama: habemus aquam, habemus polentam; Iovi ipsi controversiam de felicitate faciamus. Faciamus, oro te, etiam si ista defuerint; turpe est beatam vitam in auro et argento reponere, aeque turpe in aqua et polenta. "Quid ergo faciam si ista non fuerint?"
Pensées
Pensées · Section IV · 266
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 130, “Pensées · Pensées · Section …… · Section IV · fragment 266,” can mean this: The first thought in your mind may be wrong. Look for clues and think again.
Try this: Observe first and guess second. Change your mind when clues change.
Important reminder: Old books can reflect old limits. A child does not need to follow every old rule; ask a trusted adult.
For adults: historical and edition context
Pascal left these unfinished fragments amid seventeenth-century French scientific development, religious controversy, and illness, probably for a projected Christian apology. Modern grouping and numbering reflect Brunschvicg’s editorial decisions rather than a finished authorial order. Analysis distinguishes religious argument, mathematics, historical evidence, and personal experience.
- Period
- 17th-century France; early modern science and religious controversy
- Region
- France
- Work date
- Fragments written mainly c. 1657–1662; Brunschvicg edition published 1897–1925
- Edition
- Léon Brunschvicg edition, Section IV
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
Combien les lunettes nous ont-elles découvert d’astres qui n’étaient point pour nos philosophes d’auparavant ! On entreprenait franchement l’Écriture sainte sur le grand nombre des étoiles, en disant : Il n’y en a que mille vingt-deux, nous le savons. Il y a des herbes sur la terre ; nous les voyons. — De la lune on ne les verrait pas. — Et sur ces herbes des poils ; et dans ces poils de petits animaux ; mais après cela, plus rien. — Ô présomptueux ! — Les mixtes sont composés d’éléments ; et les éléments, non. — Ô présomptueux, voici un trait délicat. Il ne faut pas dire qu’il y a ce qu’on ne voit pas. — Il faut donc dire comme les autres, mais ne pas penser comme eux.
Pensées
Pensées · Section XIV · 900
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 131, “Pensées · Pensées · Section ……· Section XIV · fragment 900,” can mean this: The first thought in your mind may be wrong. Look for clues and think again.
Try this: Observe first and guess second. Change your mind when clues change.
Important reminder: Old books can reflect old limits. A child does not need to follow every old rule; ask a trusted adult.
For adults: historical and edition context
Pascal left these unfinished fragments amid seventeenth-century French scientific development, religious controversy, and illness, probably for a projected Christian apology. Modern grouping and numbering reflect Brunschvicg’s editorial decisions rather than a finished authorial order. Analysis distinguishes religious argument, mathematics, historical evidence, and personal experience.
- Period
- 17th-century France; early modern science and religious controversy
- Region
- France
- Work date
- Fragments written mainly c. 1657–1662; Brunschvicg edition published 1897–1925
- Edition
- Léon Brunschvicg edition, Section XIV
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
Qui veut donner le sens de l’Écriture et ne le prend point de l’Écriture, est ennemi de l’Écriture. (Aug. d. d. ch.).
Pensées
Pensées · Section VI · 353
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 132, “Pensées · Pensées · Section …… · Section VI · fragment 353,” can mean this: The first thought in your mind may be wrong. Look for clues and think again.
Try this: Give gentle care to a person, animal, or plant today.
Important reminder: Being brave does not mean taking unsafe risks. Leave danger and find a trusted adult.
For adults: historical and edition context
Pascal left these unfinished fragments amid seventeenth-century French scientific development, religious controversy, and illness, probably for a projected Christian apology. Modern grouping and numbering reflect Brunschvicg’s editorial decisions rather than a finished authorial order. Analysis distinguishes religious argument, mathematics, historical evidence, and personal experience.
- Period
- 17th-century France; early modern science and religious controversy
- Region
- France
- Work date
- Fragments written mainly c. 1657–1662; Brunschvicg edition published 1897–1925
- Edition
- Léon Brunschvicg edition, Section VI
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
Je n’admire point l’excès d’une vertu, comme de la valeur, si je ne vois en même temps l’excès de la vertu opposée, comme en Épaminondas, qui avait l’extrême valeur et l’extrême bénignité. Car, autrement, ce n’est pas monter, c’est tomber. On ne montre pas sa grandeur pour être à une extrémité, mais bien en touchant les deux à la fois, et remplissant tout l’entre-deux. Mais peut-être que ce n’est qu’un soudain mouvement de l’âme de l’un à l’autre de ces extrêmes, et qu’elle n’est jamais en effet qu’en un point, comme le tison de feu. Soit, mais au moins cela marque l’agilité de l’âme, si cela n’en marque l’étendue.
論語
述而第七 · 七之十四
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 133, “論語 · 述而第七 · 七之十四 · 七之十四,” can mean this: People with power should explain their reasons and allow questions.
Try this: After a task, check whether it truly helped someone.
Important reminder: This is one reading, not a rule that is always right. Tell a trusted adult about danger, bullying, or pain.
For adults: historical and edition context
Confucius lived amid political fragmentation and changing ritual order in the late Spring and Autumn period. The Analects was compiled over time by disciples and later circles, not recorded as a verbatim transcript. This item is fixed to a specific Wikisource revision.
- Period
- 春秋末至战国编集 / late Spring and Autumn to Warring States compilation
- Region
- 中国 / China
- Work date
- 约公元前5—3世纪逐步编集
- Edition
- 中文维基文库《論語》述而第七
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
冉有曰：「夫子爲衞君乎？」子貢曰：「諾，吾將問之」。入曰：「伯夷叔齊，何人也？」曰：「古之賢人也。」曰：「怨乎？」曰：「求仁而得仁，又何怨？」出，曰：「夫子不爲也。」
Pensées
Pensées · Section VII · 452
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 134, “Pensées · Pensées · Section ……· Section VII · fragment 452,” can mean this: The first thought in your mind may be wrong. Look for clues and think again.
Try this: After a task, check whether it truly helped someone.
Important reminder: Being brave does not mean taking unsafe risks. Leave danger and find a trusted adult.
For adults: historical and edition context
Pascal left these unfinished fragments amid seventeenth-century French scientific development, religious controversy, and illness, probably for a projected Christian apology. Modern grouping and numbering reflect Brunschvicg’s editorial decisions rather than a finished authorial order. Analysis distinguishes religious argument, mathematics, historical evidence, and personal experience.
- Period
- 17th-century France; early modern science and religious controversy
- Region
- France
- Work date
- Fragments written mainly c. 1657–1662; Brunschvicg edition published 1897–1925
- Edition
- Léon Brunschvicg edition, Section VII
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
Plaindre les malheureux n’est pas contre la concupiscence ; au contraire, on est bien aise d’avoir à rendre ce témoignage d’amitié, et à s’attirer la réputation de tendresse, sans rien donner.
Pensées
Pensées · Section II-2 · 163
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 135, “Pensées · Pensées · Section …… Section II-2 · fragment 163,” can mean this: The first thought in your mind may be wrong. Look for clues and think again.
Try this: Before choosing, count to three and ask, “Is there another way?”
Important reminder: Old books can reflect old limits. A child does not need to follow every old rule; ask a trusted adult.
For adults: historical and edition context
Pascal left these unfinished fragments amid seventeenth-century French scientific development, religious controversy, and illness, probably for a projected Christian apology. Modern grouping and numbering reflect Brunschvicg’s editorial decisions rather than a finished authorial order. Analysis distinguishes religious argument, mathematics, historical evidence, and personal experience.
- Period
- 17th-century France; early modern science and religious controversy
- Region
- France
- Work date
- Fragments written mainly c. 1657–1662; Brunschvicg edition published 1897–1925
- Edition
- Léon Brunschvicg edition, Section II-2
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
Vanité. — La cause et les effets de l’amour : Cléopâtre.
Pensées
Pensées · Section II-2 · 101
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 136, “Pensées · Pensées · Section …… Section II-2 · fragment 101,” can mean this: After learning something, practise it and ask for help when needed.
Try this: Observe first and guess second. Change your mind when clues change.
Important reminder: This is one reading, not a rule that is always right. Tell a trusted adult about danger, bullying, or pain.
For adults: historical and edition context
Pascal left these unfinished fragments amid seventeenth-century French scientific development, religious controversy, and illness, probably for a projected Christian apology. Modern grouping and numbering reflect Brunschvicg’s editorial decisions rather than a finished authorial order. Analysis distinguishes religious argument, mathematics, historical evidence, and personal experience.
- Period
- 17th-century France; early modern science and religious controversy
- Region
- France
- Work date
- Fragments written mainly c. 1657–1662; Brunschvicg edition published 1897–1925
- Edition
- Léon Brunschvicg edition, Section II-2
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
Je mets en fait que, si tous les hommes savaient ce qu’ils disent les uns des autres, il n’y aurait pas quatre amis dans le monde ; cela paraît par les querelles que causent les rapports indiscrets qu’on en fait quelquefois [Je dis bien plus, tous les hommes seraient…]
Pensées
Pensées · Section X · 667
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 137, “Pensées · Pensées · Section ……7 · Section X · fragment 667,” can mean this: The first thought in your mind may be wrong. Look for clues and think again.
Try this: Before choosing, count to three and ask, “Is there another way?”
Important reminder: Being brave does not mean taking unsafe risks. Leave danger and find a trusted adult.
For adults: historical and edition context
Pascal left these unfinished fragments amid seventeenth-century French scientific development, religious controversy, and illness, probably for a projected Christian apology. Modern grouping and numbering reflect Brunschvicg’s editorial decisions rather than a finished authorial order. Analysis distinguishes religious argument, mathematics, historical evidence, and personal experience.
- Period
- 17th-century France; early modern science and religious controversy
- Region
- France
- Work date
- Fragments written mainly c. 1657–1662; Brunschvicg edition published 1897–1925
- Edition
- Léon Brunschvicg edition, Section X
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
Figuratifs. — Les termes d’épée, d’écu. Potentissime.
Pensées
Pensées · Section X · 649
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 138, “Pensées · Pensées · Section ……9 · Section X · fragment 649,” can mean this: The first thought in your mind may be wrong. Look for clues and think again.
Try this: If you disagree, use calm words to explain why.
Important reminder: Old books can reflect old limits. A child does not need to follow every old rule; ask a trusted adult.
For adults: historical and edition context
Pascal left these unfinished fragments amid seventeenth-century French scientific development, religious controversy, and illness, probably for a projected Christian apology. Modern grouping and numbering reflect Brunschvicg’s editorial decisions rather than a finished authorial order. Analysis distinguishes religious argument, mathematics, historical evidence, and personal experience.
- Period
- 17th-century France; early modern science and religious controversy
- Region
- France
- Work date
- Fragments written mainly c. 1657–1662; Brunschvicg edition published 1897–1925
- Edition
- Léon Brunschvicg edition, Section X
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
Parler contre les trop grands figuratifs.
Pensées
Pensées · Section XII · 784
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 139, “Pensées · Pensées · Section ……· Section XII · fragment 784,” can mean this: The first thought in your mind may be wrong. Look for clues and think again.
Try this: Observe first and guess second. Change your mind when clues change.
Important reminder: Being brave does not mean taking unsafe risks. Leave danger and find a trusted adult.
For adults: historical and edition context
Pascal left these unfinished fragments amid seventeenth-century French scientific development, religious controversy, and illness, probably for a projected Christian apology. Modern grouping and numbering reflect Brunschvicg’s editorial decisions rather than a finished authorial order. Analysis distinguishes religious argument, mathematics, historical evidence, and personal experience.
- Period
- 17th-century France; early modern science and religious controversy
- Region
- France
- Work date
- Fragments written mainly c. 1657–1662; Brunschvicg edition published 1897–1925
- Edition
- Léon Brunschvicg edition, Section XII
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
Jésus-Christ n’a point voulu du témoignage des démons, ni de ceux qui n’avaient pas vocation ; mais de Dieu et Jehan-Baptiste.
Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Seneca · XCIV. SENECA LUCILIO SUO SALUTEM §13
Simple guide for children under seven
What it means: Today’s item 140, “Epistulae morales ad Luciliu……NECA LUCILIO SUO SALUTEM §13,” can mean this: Everyone meets hard choices. We can pause before acting.
Try this: Today, listen until another person finishes, then answer.
Important reminder: This is one reading, not a rule that is always right. Tell a trusted adult about danger, bullying, or pain.
For adults: historical and edition context
Seneca’s letters to Lucilius are usually dated to about 62–65 CE, late in Nero’s reign. They combine counsel with deliberate literary composition. Claims about freedom, wealth, and death must be read alongside Roman political danger, hierarchy, and slavery. This item preserves the original Latin at a fixed Wikisource revision.
- Period
- Roman Empire, 1st century CE
- Region
- Roman Empire
- Work date
- Commonly dated to Seneca’s final years, c. 62–65 CE
- Edition
- Latin Wikisource, Liber XIV – XV
Check the complete text with an adult
Open the edition-verified text
[13] Duo sunt propter quae delinquimus: aut inest animo pravis opinionibus malitia contracta aut, etiam si non est falsis occupatus, ad falsa proclivis est et cito specie quo non oportet trahente corrumpitur. Itaque debemus aut percurare mentem aegram et vitiis liberare aut vacantem quidem sed ad peiora pronam praeoccupare. Utrumque decreta philosophiae faciunt; ergo tale praecipiendi genus nil agit.