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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (-5 - +65)

Epistula LXXVIII.
Toto contra ille pugnet animo; vincetur, si cesserit, vincet, si se contra dolorem suum intenderit. Nunc hoc plerique faciunt, adtrahunt in se ruinam, cui obstandum est. Istud quod premit, quod inpendet, quod urget, si subducere te coeperis, sequetur et gravius incumbet; si contra steteris et obniti volueris, repelletur. …
[Let such a man fight against them with all his might: if he once gives way, he will be vanquished; but if he strives against his sufferings, he will conquer. As it is, however, what most men do is to drag down upon their own heads a falling ruin which they ought to try to support. If you begin to withdraw your support from that which thrusts toward you and totters and is ready to plunge, it will follow you and lean more heavily upon you; but if you hold your ground and make up your mind to push against it, it will be forced back. …]
(…., Ad Lucilium Epistulae morales, London 1970, p. 190 / 191.)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (-5 – +65)

Epistula LXXVIII.
Toto contra ille pugnet animo; vincetur, si cesserit, vincet, si se contra dolorem suum intenderit. Nunc hoc plerique faciunt, adtrahunt in se ruinam, cui obstandum est. Istud quod premit, quod inpendet, quod urget, si subducere te coeperis, sequetur et gravius incumbet; si contra steteris et obniti volueris, repelletur. ...
Let such a man fight against them with all his might: if he once gives way, he will be vanquished; but if he strives against his sufferings, he will conquer. As it is, however, what most men do is to drag down upon their own heads a falling ruin which they ought to try to support. If you begin to withdraw your support from that which thrusts toward you and totters and is ready to plunge, it will follow you and lean more heavily upon you; but if you hold your ground and make up your mind to push against it, it will be forced back. ...
(...., Ad Lucilium Epistulae morales, London 1970, p. 190 / 191.)

Anaxagorás (-500-428)

Nejsou od sebe odloučeny věci v jednom světě ani uťaty sekereou, ani teplo od chladna, ani chladno od tepla.
(Zl. B 8 ze Simplikia)
(0170, Zlomky předsokratovských myslitelů, př. K. Svoboda, Praha 1944, s. 94.)

Anaxagorás (-500-428)

Když se to takto rozloučilo, je nutno uznati, že všeho není o nic méně ani více – neboť není možno, aby bylo více než všechno -, ale že je všeho stále stejně.
(Zl. B 5 ze Simplikia)
(0170, Zlomky předsokratovských myslitelů, př. K. Svoboda, Praha 1944, s. 94.)

Anaxagorás (-500-428)

Viděním nezjevného je zjevné, jak praví Anaxagoras, kterého proto chválí Demokritos.
(Zl. B 21a ze Sexta.)
(0170, Zlomky předsokratovských myslitelů, př. K. Svoboda, Praha 1944, s. 95.)