“C'est d'âme qu'il faut changer, et non de climat.”
Animum debes mutare, non cœlum.
Sénèque livre Lettres à Lucilius
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Lettres à Lucilius (Epistulae morales ad Lucilium)
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“Nul ne sait répondre aux bienfaits que le sage : l’insensé aussi y répondra d’une manière telle quelle, selon sa portée; le savoir lui manquera plutôt que la volonté. La volonté ne s’apprend point.”
Nemo referre gratiam scit nisi sapiens : stultus quoque, utcumque scit et quemadmodum potest, referat; scientia illi potius, quam voluntas desit. Velle non discitur.
Sénèque livre Lettres à Lucilius
Nemo referre gratiam scit nisi sapiens : stultus quoque, utcumque scit et quemadmodum potest, referat ; scientia illi potius, quam voluntas desit. Velle non discitur.
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Consolation à Marcia (Ad Marciam de consolatione)
“La mauvaise Fortune ne brise que celui que la bonne Fortune a aveuglé.”
Consolation à ma mère Helva (Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione)
Consolation à ma mère Helva (Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione)
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“[…] un malheur n'a jamais que l'importance que nous lui accordons.”
Consolation à Marcia (Ad Marciam de consolatione)
“Personne ne meurt trop tôt puisque personne n'était destiné à vivre plus longtemps qu'il n'a vécu.”
Consolation à Marcia (Ad Marciam de consolatione)
“Là où il n'y a plus d'amélioration possible, le déclin est proche.”
Consolation à Marcia (Ad Marciam de consolatione)
Consolation à Marcia (Ad Marciam de consolatione)
“On n'est jamais méprisé par autrui que si on commence par se mépriser soi-même.”
Consolation à ma mère Helva (Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione)
“La véritable joie est une chose sérieuse.”
Sénèque livre Lettres à Lucilius
Lettres à Lucilius (Epistulae morales ad Lucilium)
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“The wise man is joyful, happy and calm, unshaken, he lives on a plane with the gods.”
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LIX: On Pleasure and Joy
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LI: On Baiae and Morals
“Marcet sine adversario virtus.”
Seneca the Younger livre De Providentia
Valor withers without adversity.
De Providentia (On Providence), 2.4
Moral Essays
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CV: On Facing the World With Confidence
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CIV: On Care of Health and Peace of Mind
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CI: On the Futility of Planning Ahead
“But how foolish it is to set out one’s life, when one is not even owner of the morrow!”
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CI: On the Futility of Planning Ahead
“All the Good of mortals is mortal.”
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCVIII: On the Fickleness of Fortune
“As our acts and our thoughts are, so will our lives be.”
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCV: On the usefulness of basic principles
“Is it for this purpose that we are strong—that we may have light burdens to bear?”
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind
“Pain he endures, death he awaits.”
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCVIII: On the Fickleness of Fortune
“So near at hand is freedom, and is anyone still a slave?”
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVII: On Taking One’s Own Life
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVI: On Learning Wisdom in Old Age
“He knows his own strength; he knows that he was born to carry burdens.”
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXI: On the supreme good
“Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.”
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII
“Fortune has taken away, but Fortune has given.”
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII
“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LIX: On Pleasure and Joy
“There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death.”
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind
“Let us greedily enjoy our friends, because we do not know how long this privilege will be ours.”
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII
“I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life.”
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXI: On meeting death cheerfully
Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LVIII: On Being
