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Lucius Annaeus Seneca római sztoikus filozófus, drámaíró és államférfi. Édesapjától megkülönböztetendő, ifjabb Senecának is nevezik. Wikipedia  

✵ 4 i.e. – 12. április 65 i.sz.  •  Más nevek Seneca mladší, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca der Jüngere), Lucius Annaues Seneca, Луций Анней Сенека
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca: 242 idézet11 Kedvelés

Lucius Annaeus Seneca híres idézetei

„Ha bölcs vagy, kösd össze ezt a két elemet: ne reménykedj kétség nélkül, és ne ess kétségbe remény nélkül.”
Si sapis, alterum alteri misce: nec speraveris sine desperatione nec desperaveris sine spe.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

„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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

„Soha senki sem volt bölcs véletlenül.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca idézetek

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

„A legerősebb az, aki saját magát tartja hatalmában.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

„Nincs nagy zsenialitás egy kis őrület nélkül.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

„A hódítás feltételei mindig könnyűek. Csak egy darabig kell fáradoznunk, egy darabig tűrnünk, mindig hinnünk kell, és soha nem szabad visszafordulnunk.”

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Idézetek angolul

“I should prefer to be free from torture; but if the time comes when it must be endured, I shall desire that I may conduct myself therein with bravery, honour, and courage. Of course I prefer that war should not occur; but if war does occur, I shall desire that I may nobly endure the wounds, the starvation, and all that the exigency of war brings. Nor am I so mad as to crave illness; but if I must suffer illness, I shall desire that I may do nothing which shows lack of restraint, and nothing that is unmanly. The conclusion is, not that hardships are desirable, but that virtue is desirable, which enables us patiently to endure hardships.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXVII: On Ill-Health and Endurance of Suffering

“I cannot help believing that Mucius was all the more lucky because he manipulated the flames as calmly as if he were holding out his hand to the manipulator. He had wiped out all his previous mistakes; he finished the war unarmed and maimed; and with that stump of a hand he conquered two kings.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXVI: On Various Aspects of Virtue

“There stood Mucius, despising the enemy and despising the fire, and watched his hand as it dripped blood over the fire on his enemy’s altar, until Porsenna, envying the fame of the hero whose punishment he was advocating, ordered the fire to be removed against the will of the victim.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXVI: On Various Aspects of Virtue

“Allow me, excellent Lucilius, to utter a still bolder word: if any goods could be greater than others, I should prefer those which seem harsh to those which are mild and alluring, and should pronounce them greater. For it is more of an accomplishment to break one’s way through difficulties than to keep joy within bounds.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXVI: On Various Aspects of Virtue

“Great also are the souls of the defenders—men who know that, as long as the path to death lies open, the blockade is not complete, men who breathe their last in the arms of liberty.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXVI: On Various Aspects of Virtue

“But the wise man is fortified against all inroads; he is alert; he will not retreat before the attack of poverty, or of sorrow, or of disgrace, or of pain. He will walk undaunted both against them and among them.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LIX: On Pleasure and Joy

“For what else are you busied with except improving yourself every day, laying aside some error, and coming to understand that the faults which you attribute to circumstances are in yourself?”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter L: On Our Blindness and Its Cure

“Would you really know what philosophy offers to humanity? Philosophy offers counsel.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLVII: On master and slave

“I propose to value them according to their character, and not according to their duties. Each man acquires his character for himself, but accident assigns his duties.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLVII: On master and slave

“At any rate, if you wish to sift doubtful meanings of this kind, teach us that the happy man is not he whom the crowd deems happy, namely, he into whose coffers mighty sums have flowed, but he whose possessions are all in his soul, who is upright and exalted, who spurns inconstancy, who sees no man with whom he wishes to change places, who rates men only at their value as men, who takes Nature for his teacher, conforming to her laws and living as she commands, whom no violence can deprive of his possessions, who turns evil into good, is unerring in judgment, unshaken, unafraid, who may be moved by force but never moved to distraction, whom Fortune when she hurls at him with all her might the deadliest missile in her armoury, may graze, though rarely, but never wound.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLV: On sophistical argumentation

“He that owns himself has lost nothing. But how few men are blessed with ownership of self!”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLII: On Values

“Very often the things that cost nothing cost us the most heavily; I can show you many objects the quest and acquisition of which have wrested freedom from our hands.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLII: On Values

“It is generally agreed that no activity can be successfully pursued by an individual who is preoccupied – not rhetoric or liberal studies – since the mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply, but rejects everything which is, so to speak, crammed into it.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLIX: On the Shortness of Life

“Non faciunt meliorem equum aurei freni.”

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

“You must die erect and unyielding.”

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

“You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place will satisfy you.”

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

“You do not know where death awaits you; so be ready for it everywhere.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXVI: On Old Age and Death

“I do not know whether I shall make progress; but I should prefer to lack success rather than to lack faith.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXV: On Reformation

“It was a great deed to conquer Carthage, but a greater deed to conquer death.”

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

“Mucius put his hand into the fire. It is painful to be burned; but how much more painful to inflict such suffering upon oneself!”

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

“Armies have endured all manner of want, have lived on roots, and have resisted hunger by means of food too revolting to mention. All this they have suffered to gain a kingdom, and—what is more marvellous—to gain a kingdom that will be another’s. Will any man hesitate to endure poverty, in order that he may free his mind from madness?”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XVII: On Philosophy and Riches

“There is no reason why poverty should call us away from philosophy—no, nor even actual want. For when hastening after wisdom, we must endure even hunger. Men have endured hunger when their towns were besieged, and what other reward for their endurance did they obtain than that they did not fall under the conqueror’s power? How much greater is the promise of the prize of everlasting liberty, and the assurance that we need fear neither God nor man! Even though we starve, we must reach that goal.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XVII: On Philosophy and Riches

“But both courses are to be avoided; you should not copy the bad simply because they are many, nor should you hate the many because they are unlike you.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter VII: On crowds

“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”

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That was indeed agreat benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.
Seneca is quoting Hecato.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter VI: On precepts and exemplars

“I commend you and rejoice in the fact that you are persistent in your studies, and that, putting all else aside, you make it each day your endeavour to become a better man.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter V: On the Philosopher’s Mean

“No man has ever been so far advanced by Fortune that she did not threaten him as greatly as she had previously indulged him.”

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

“The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man’s ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.”

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

“This spirit thrusts itself forward, confident of commendation and esteem. It is superior to all, monarch of all it surveys; hence it should be subservient to nothing, finding no task too heavy, and nothing strong enough to weigh down the shoulders of a man.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CIV: On Care of Health and Peace of Mind

“Then it is that the height of unhappiness is reached, when men are not only attracted, but even pleased, by shameful things, and when there is no longer any room for a cure, now that those things which once were vices have become habits.”

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

“Whoever complains about the death of anyone, is complaining that he was a man. Everyone is bound by the same terms: he who is privileged to be born, is destined to die.”

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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCVIX: On Consolation to the Bereaved

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