Lucio Anneo Seneca: Frasi in inglese (pagina 12)

Lucio Anneo Seneca era filosofo, poeta, politico e drammaturgo romano. Frasi in inglese.
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“We give voice to our trivial cares, but suffer enormities in silence”

Phaedra, line 607 https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/sen.phaedra.shtml
Tragedies
Originale: (la) Curae leues locuntur, ingentes stupent.

“The customs of that most criminal nation have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.”

De Superstitione (On Superstition)
Origine: Apostle Paul: A Polite Bribe https://books.google.com.br/books?id=wefkDwAAQBAJ&pg=108 by Robert Orlando; p. 108

“Prove your words by your deeds.”

Seneca the Younger libro Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XX: On practicing what you preach

“Who can hope for nothing should despair of nothing.”

Originale: (la) Qui nil potest sperare, desperate nihil.
Origine: Tragedies, Medea (c. 50 CE), Line 163 (trans. A. J. Boyle)

“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 libro Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

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