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“La mauvaise Fortune ne brise que celui que la bonne Fortune a aveuglé.”

Consolation à Marcia (Ad Marciam de consolatione)

“Si un grand homme tombe, c'est un grand homme qui est à terre et je dirai qu'on ne le méprise pas plus qu'on ne piétine les ruines d'un temple consacré que les personnes pieuses révèrent tout autant que si les murs étaient encore debout.”

Consolation à ma mère Helva (Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione)

“Il doit nécessairement craindre beaucoup, celui qui est craint de beaucoup.”

Consolation à ma mère Helva (Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione)

“[…] un malheur n'a jamais que l'importance que nous lui accordons.”

Sénèque Citations

“Les destins conduisent celui qui veut, ils traînent celui qui ne veut pas.”

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.”

“Là où il n'y a plus d'amélioration possible, le déclin est proche.”

Consolation à Marcia (Ad Marciam de consolatione)

“Quand tu auras désappris à espérer, je t'apprendrai à vouloir.”

Consolation à Marcia (Ad Marciam de consolatione)

“Si on nous donnait le choix entre ne pas être longtemps heureux et ne jamais l'être, mieux vaudrait un bonheur prêt à s'envoler que pas de bonheur du tout.”

“On n'est jamais méprisé par autrui que si on commence par se mépriser soi-même.”

Consolation à Marcia (Ad Marciam de consolatione)

“La véritable joie est une chose sérieuse.”

Consolation à ma mère Helva (Ad Helviam matrem de consolatione)

Sénèque livre Lettres à Lucilius

Lettres à Lucilius (Epistulae morales ad Lucilium)

“Ce serait une sorte de consolation pour notre fragilité comme pour celle des choses qui nous touchent, si tout était aussi lent à périr qu’à croître; mais le progrès veut du temps pour se développer : la chute vient au pas de course.”

“La croissance est lente, mais la chute est rapide.”

“Our luxuries have condemned us to weakness; we have ceased to be able to do that which we have long declined to do.”

Sénèque: Citations en anglais

“And what is freedom, you ask? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.”

Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LV: On Vatia’s Villa

“No man ought to glory except in that which is his own.”

Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LI: On Baiae and Morals

“It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great.”

Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLI: On the god within us

“It is disgraceful, instead of proceeding ahead, to be carried along, and then suddenly, amid the whirlpool of events, to ask in a dazed way: “How did I get into this condition?””

Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXXIX: On Noble Aspirations

“He who does not wish to die cannot have wished to live.”

Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXXVII: On Allegiance to Virtue

“You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.”

Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXX: On conquering the conqueror

“[Mucius] might have accomplished something more successful in that camp, but never anything more brave.”

Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXVIII: On travel as a cure for discontent

“You will thus understand that what you fear is either insignificant or short-lived.”

Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXIV: On despising death

“Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.”

Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXIV: On despising death

“Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter IV: On the terrors of death

“If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.”

Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter I: On Saving Time

“Socrates was ennobled by the hemlock draught. Wrench from Cato's hand his sword, the vindicator of liberty, and you deprive him of the greatest share of his glory.”

Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XVIII: On Festivals and Fasting

“We give voice to our trivial cares, but suffer enormities in silence”

Seneca the Younger livre Lettres à Lucilius

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XIII: On Groundless Fears

“There are more things, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

Seneca the Younger Phaedra

Phaedra, line 607 https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/sen.phaedra.shtml <br class="br">Tragedies <br class="br">Original: (la) Curae leues locuntur, ingentes stupent.