Lucius Annaeus Seneca idézet

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„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.

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

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

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

„Soha senki sem volt bölcs véletlenül.”

„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.”

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

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

„Azokra a dolgokra, amelyeket nehéz volt elviselni, édes emlékezni.”

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

„Nincs nagy zsenialitás egy kis őrület nélkül.”

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

„Ha az ember nem tudja, hogy melyik kikötőbe hajózik, semmilyen szél sem kedvező.”

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”

“The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.”

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”

“If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

“The wise man is joyful, happy and calm, unshaken, he lives on a plane with the gods.”

“Would not anyone who is a man have his slumbers broken by a war-trumpet rather than by a chorus of serenaders?”

“Marcet sine adversario virtus.”

“Besides, he who is feared, fears also; no one has been able to arouse terror and live in peace of mind.”

“Socrates is reported to have replied, when a certain person complained of having received no benefit from his travels: “It serves you right! You travelled in your own company!””

“The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. And often this living nobly means that you cannot live long.”

“But how foolish it is to set out one’s life, when one is not even owner of the morrow!”

“All the Good of mortals is mortal.”

“As our acts and our thoughts are, so will our lives be.”

“Is it for this purpose that we are strong—that we may have light burdens to bear?”

“Pain he endures, death he awaits.”

“So near at hand is freedom, and is anyone still a slave?”

“But the wise man knows that all things are in store for him. Whatever happens, he says: “I knew it.””

“He knows his own strength; he knows that he was born to carry burdens.”

“Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.”

“Fortune has taken away, but Fortune has given.”

“That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.”

“There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death.”

“Let us greedily enjoy our friends, because we do not know how long this privilege will be ours.”

“I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life.”

“We are weak, watery beings standing in the midst of unrealities; therefore let us turn our minds to the things that are everlasting.”

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

“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.”

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