Translations
Use only the appropriate actions of pursuit and avoidance; and even these lightly, and with gentleness and reservation.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
Where it is practically necessary for you to pursue or avoid anything, do even this with discretion, and gentleness, and moderation.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
But employ only the power of moving towards an object and retiring from it; and these powers indeed only slightly and with exceptions and with remission.George Long (1890)
Impulse to act and not to act, these are your concern; yet exercise them gently and without strain, and provisionally.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)