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Oscar Wilde ()

Actors are fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns ülay Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
(Lord Arthur Savile´s Crime, in: Complete Works of O.W., Collins, London/Glasgow 1985, p. 174 – <2>.)Oscar Wilde World

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.)

Sirach ()

6Nestůj o to, aby byl soudcím; neb by snad nemohl přetrhnouti nepravosti, a aby se snad nemusil obávati člověka mocného, a nepoložil úrazu na rovné cestě své.
(7,6)
6Do not seek to become a judge, lest you be unable to remove iniquity, lest you be partial to a powerful man, and thus put a blot on your integrity.
(7,6)
(Apokryfy, Praha 1952, překlad Kralických, V. díl, Eccl.-Sirach 7, 6 – str. 222.)
(The Apocrypha, Oxford Univ.Press, N.Y. 1977, p. 137 – Sirach 7,6)

Sirach ()

Od nepřátel svých odděl se, a přátel svých šetř se.
(Apokryfy, Praha 1952, překlad Kralických, V. díl, Eccl.-Sirach 6, 13 – str. 221.)
Keep yourself far from your enemies, and be on guard toward your friends.
(The Apocrypha, Oxford Univ.Press, N.Y. 1977, p. 135 – Sirach 6,13.)

slovníky ()

česky: právo (od „pravé“ strany, podobně spravedlnost, správný, pravda, pravý, pravidlo atd.)
německy: Recht (od „rechte“ Seite, richtig, recht haben, Gerechtigkeit, )
anglicky: right (od right side, to be right, righteousness, též straight, correct, true, just)
francouzsky: droit (od přímý, rovný, též pravý; la droite – pravá strana)
latinsky: ius (též iurisprudentia, iustus, iustitia)