Lucius Annaeus Seneca idézet

„Semmilyen szél nem kedvez annak, aki nem tudja, melyik kikötőbe tart.“
errant consilia nostra, quia non habent quo derigantur; ignoranti quem portum petat nullus suus ventus est.

„Mert egyetlen ember sem szabad, aki testének rabszolgája.“
Nemo liber est qui corpori servit.

„A szerencse az, amikor a felkészülés találkozik a lehetőséggel.“

„Nem az szegény, akinek csak kevese van, hanem aki többre vágyik.“
Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.

„A háborúnál csak a háborútól való félelem rosszabb.“
peior est bello timor ipse belli.

„Senki sem képes uralkodni, ha nem képes elviselni, hogy uralva legyen.“
nemo autem regere potest nisi qui et regi.

„Az igazi barátság egyik legszebb tulajdonsága a megértés.“

„Az elme nehezen felejti azt, amit már régen megtanult.“

„Soha senki sem volt bölcs véletlenül.“

„Kezdjetek el végre élni, és minden egyes napot külön életnek számítsatok.“

„A barátság mindig előnyös; a szerelem néha árt.“

„It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.“
Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.

Forrás: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, Line 6.

„Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy“
Sola virtus praestat gaudium perpetuum, securum; etiam si quid obstat, nubium modo intervenit, quae infra feruntur nec umquam diem vincunt.

„One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.“

Letter XXVII
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)
Kontextus: Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.

„Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.“

Has been attributed to Seneca since the 1990s (eg. Gregory K. Ericksen, (1999), Women entrepreneurs only: 12 women entrepreneurs tell the stories of their success, page ix.). Other books ascribe the saying to either Darrell K. Royal (former American football player, born 1924) or Elmer G. Letterman (Insurance salesman and writer, 1897-1982). However, it is unlikely either man originated the saying. A version that reads "He is lucky who realizes that luck is the point where preparation meets opportunity" can be found (unattributed) in the 1912 The Youth's Companion: Volume 86. The quote might be a distortion of the following passage by Seneca (who makes no mention of "luck" and is in fact quoting his friend Demetrius the Cynic):<blockquote>"The best wrestler," he would say, "is not he who has learned thoroughly all the tricks and twists of the art, which are seldom met with in actual wrestling, but he who has well and carefully trained himself in one or two of them, and watches keenly for an opportunity of practising them." — Seneca, On Benefits, vii. 1 http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Benefits4.html</blockquote>
Disputed

„Worse than war is the very fear of war.“
peior est bello timor ipse belli.

— Seneca the Younger, Thyestes

Thyestes, line 572 (Chorus).
Tragedies

„For no man is free who is a slave to his body.“
Nemo liber est qui corpori servit.

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCII: On the Happy Life

„If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.“
Si sapis, alterum alteri misce: nec speraveris sine desperatione nec desperaveris sine spe.

Alternate translation: Hope not without despair, despair not without hope. (translated by Zachariah Rush).
Forrás: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CIV: On Care of Health and Peace of Mind, Line 12

„Unrighteous fortune seldom spares the highest worth; no one with safety can long front so frequent perils. Whom calamity oft passes by she finds at last.“
Iniqua raro maximis virtutibus fortuna parcit ; nemo se tuto diu periculis offerre tam crebris potest ; quem saepe transit casus, aliquando invenit.