Do you ever check the original?

As somebody coming from classical languages and literature, I’ve been wondering about how much people here like to look up the original phrasing or wording and try to understand it.

A sentence from Seneca that I saw in a recent comment here goes like this in one translation:

You must persevere, must develop new strength by continuous study, until that which is only a good inclination becomes a good settled purpose.

This is from the 16th letter to Lucilius. The original goes like this:

Perseverandum est et adsiduo studio robur addendum, donec bona mens sit quod bona voluntas est.

So, for instance, we see that the impersonal “perseverandum est” is rendered as a second person address from Seneca to Lucilius: “You must persevere”. Not a strange choice given that we’re working with a letter addressed to Lucilius, but it does seem to make the more general statement of the Latin, where there is no reference to any particular person, time or place, into something more personal.

Is this something you like to do, perhaps even despite not knowing Greek or Latin?