Lucius Annaeus Seneca idézet oldal 7

„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.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca idézetek

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

„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.”

“The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca: Idézetek angolul

“No man was ever wise by chance.”

“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life.”

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”

“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?”

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

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

“Marcet sine adversario virtus.”

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

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

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

Seneca the Younger könyv De Providentia

Valor withers without adversity.
De Providentia (On Providence), 2.4
Moral Essays

“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!””

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CV: On Facing the World With Confidence

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

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

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

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

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

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 könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CI: On the Futility of Planning Ahead

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

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCVIII: On the Fickleness of Fortune

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

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCV: On the usefulness of basic principles

“Pain he endures, death he awaits.”

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind

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

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCVIII: On the Fickleness of Fortune

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

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVII: On Taking One’s Own Life

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

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVI: On Learning Wisdom in Old Age

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

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXI: On the supreme good

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

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII

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

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII

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

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

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

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

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind

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

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII

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

Seneca the Younger könyv Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXI: On meeting death cheerfully