# stoa012 1.4.3

Seneca the Younger (Dialogues), stoa012, Book 1, Chapter 4. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/seneca-the-younger-dialogues/stoa012/1.4.3

Item dicere et bono viro possum, si illi nullam occasionem difficilior casus dedit in qua una vim animi sui ostenderet : “Miserum te iudico, quod numquam fuisti miser. Transisti sine adversario vitam ; nemo sciet quid potueris, ne tu quidem ipse.” Opus est enim ad notitiam sui experimento ; quid quisque posset nisi temptando non didicit. Itaque quidam ipsi ultro se cessantibus malis obtulerunt et virtuti iturae in obscurum occasionem per quam enitesceret quaesierunt.

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Seneca the Younger (Dialogues), stoa012, 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.
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