L. Annaei Senecae Dialogorvm libri X, XI, XII.1915 - 312 páginas |
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A. W. VERRALL adfectus alio animi animo animus atque Augustus Aulus Gellius Caesar causa Cicero Claudius constr Corsica cuius death Dial dolor edition eius enim ergo etiam exile fortuna fratre fuit Gallio Gertz Greek haec Helu Hist homini illa illi illos illum inter Introd ipsa ipse ipsum ista itaque J. E. SANDYS lacrimas Latin licet Livy Lucan lugubria Madvig manus Mart meaning mihi modo multa Muretus nemo nihil nisi nobis numquam nunc omnes omnia omnibus omnis omnium Ovid Paul Pliny Epp Pliny Nat Polyb Polybius pomerium potest publicae quae Quaest quam quantum quibus quid quidem Quint Quintilian quod quoque quorum R. C. JEBB rebus Roman Rome semper Seneca sense sibi sine Stoics studia Suet sunt suum Tacitus tamen tantum tempus tibi tuum uelut uiro uita uitam verb word writers
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Página xx - ... here, and audience there, when all the while this eternal court is open to you, with its society, wide as the world, multitudinous as its days, — the chosen and the mighty of every place and time...
Página xix - Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity.
Página 124 - But time escapes : Live now or never!" He said, " What's time ? Leave Now for dogs and apes ! Man has Forever.
Página xx - And yet these momentary chances we covet ; and spend our years, and passions, and powers in pursuit of little more than these ; while, meantime, there is a society continually open to us, of people who will talk to us as long as we like, whatever our rank or occupation; — talk to us in the best words they can choose, and with thanks if we listen to them. And this society, because it is so numerous and so gentle, — and can be kept waiting round us all day long, not to grant audience, but to gain...
Página 173 - Piraeus, sinistra Corinthus, quae oppida quodam tempore florentissima fuerunt, nunc prostrata et diruta ante oculos iacent. Coepi egomet mecum sic cogitare: 'Hem! nos homunculi indignamur, si quis nostrum interiit aut occisus est, quorum vita brevior esse debet, cum uno loco tot oppidum cadavera proiecta iacent? Visne tu te, Servi, cohibere et meminisse hominem te esse natum?
Página xix - These friendships are exposed to no danger from the occurrences by which other attachments are weakened or dissolved. Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects.
Página 257 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Página 128 - Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Página 28 - ... tu quidem orbis terrarum rationes administras tam abstinenter quam alienas, tam diligenter quam tuas, tam religiose quam publicas...