XIII. Verba immoderationis.
XIII. Verba immoderationis.
And he said, "Whatever I can desire and seek, I will pursue, and I will abstain from nothing." And why should I refrain from what I want, when I have no consequence from it? How could I let go of what I am, when each thing moves according to its own nature? If I were to live like this, barely able to breathe, what kind of life would that be? Whatever games and whatever laughter come my way, I will do this. When my heart rejoices, why should I be troubled? And when my veins are full of joy, why should I cut them? And when I know how to speak, why should I be silent? For the salvation of every creature is in the body, and as I was created, so I act. And why should I change into something other than what I am? Each creature grows according to its own nature, and it acts according to what is fitting for itself; so I will do too.
Read the original Latin
Et dicebat: « Quidquid desiderare et quaerere potuero, illud frequentabo, et a nullo me abstinebo.
Et quare me ab uUo me abstinerem, cum nullam retributionem inde haberem?
Quomodo dimitterem quod sum, cum unumquodque > genus secundum genus suum incedat?
Si sic viverera, quod vix suspirare posi> sem, quae tunc vita mea esset?
Quidquid ludi et quidquid risus mihi aderit, hoc > faciam.
Cum cor meum laetatur, cur illura ligem?
Et cum venae meae jucundi* tate plenae sunt, cur eas incidam?
Et cum loqui sciam, cur taceam?
Nam omnis > raotus corporis raei salus raea est, et quomodo creata sum, sic facio.
Et cur me in aliud mutarera quam in illud quod sum?
Unaquaeque creatura secundum na> turam suam crescit, et secundura hoc quod sibi congruit, sic facit; ita et ego faciam.»
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