Seneca: Citáty anglicky (strana 12)

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“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 kniha Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

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

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

Seneca the Younger kniha Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

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

“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 kniha Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

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

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

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Tragedies
Originál: (la) Curae leues locuntur, ingentes stupent.

“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 kniha Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XIII: On Groundless Fears
Originál: (la) Plura sunt, quae nos terrent quam quae premunt, et saepius opinione quam re laboramus.