# stoa010 1.7.2-3

Seneca the Younger (Dialogues), stoa010, 1.7.2 to 1.7.3. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/seneca-the-younger-dialogues/stoa010/1.7.2

Primum facilius est excludere perniciosa quam regere et non admittere quam admissa moderari ; nam cum se in possessione posuerunt, potentiora rectore sunt nec recidi se minuive patiuntur. Deinde ratio ipsa, cui freni traduntur, tam diu potens est quam diu diducta est ab adfectibus ; si miscuit se illis et inquinavit, non potest continere quos summovere potuisset. Commota enim semel et excussa mens ei servit quo impellitur.

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Seneca the Younger (Dialogues), stoa010, ed. John William Basore. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit/blob/master/data/stoa0255/stoa010/stoa0255.stoa010.perseus-lat2.xml.