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Prima virtus eat, haec ferat signa. Habebimus
nihilo minus voluptatem, sed domini eius et temperatores erimus; aliquid nos exorabit, nihil coget.
At ei, qui voluptati tradidere principia, utroque
caruere ; virtutem enim amittunt, ceterum non
ipsi voluptatem, sed ipsos voluptas habet, cuius aut
inopia torquentur aut copia strangulantur, miseri,
si deseruntur ab illa, miseriores, si obruuntur ; sicut
deprensi mari Syrtico modo in sicco relinquuntur,
modo torrente unda fluctuantur.
L. Annaeus Seneca. Moral Essays: volume 2. John W. Basore. London and New York. Heinemann. 1932.
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