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Přísloví ()

Though thy enemy seems a mouse, yet watch him like a lion.
(ex: 7843, Webster´s Pocket Quotation Dictionary, Trident Press Int. 1997, p. 140.)

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.)

Přísloví ()

15Mně pak to Bůh dal, abych mohl mluviti s rozumem, a přemyšlovati náležitě o těch věcech daných. On zajisté i moudrosti jest vůdce i moudrých správce. 16Nebo v rukou jeho my sme i řeči náše, též všecka opatrnost i umění řemesl. 17On zajisté dal mi těch věcí, kteréž v bytu jsou, známost pravou, abych věděl, jaká jest podstata světa i moc živlův; 18Počátek, dokonání i prostředek časů, 19Proměny běhu slunečného, rozdílnost počasí, běh roku a spořádání hvězd, 20Přirození živočichův, povahy zvířat, moc větrů a přemýšlívání lidská, rozdíl kmenů i moci koření; 21Anobrž cokoli tajného nebo zjevného jest, povědom sem; nebo všech věcí řemeslnice vyučila mne moudrost.
(7437, Apokryfy, pův.Kral., Praha 1952, str. 197.)
15Mihi autem dedit Deus dicere ex sententia, / Et praesumere digna horum quae mihi dantur, / Quoniam ipse sapientiae dux est, / Et sapientium emendator. / 16In manu enim illius et nos et sermones nostri, / Et omnis sapientia, et operum scientia, et disciplina. / 17Ipse enim dedit mihi horum quae sunt scientiam veram, / Ut sciam dispositionem orbis terrarum, et virtutes elementorum, / 18Initium et consumationem, et medietatem temporum, / Vicissitudinum permutationes, et commutationes temporum, / 19Anni cursus, et stellarum dispopsitiones, / 20Naturas animalium, et iras bestiarum, / Vim ventorum, et cogitationes hominum, / Differentias virgultorum, et virtutes radicum. / 21Et quaecumque sunt absconsa et improvisa didici: / Omnium enim artifex docuit me sapientia.
(6470, Vulgata, nova editio, 1985, p. 624-25.)

René Descartes (před 1650)

Omnem igitur collocabit industriam in distinguendis & examinandis illis tribus cognoscendi modis, vidensque veritatem proprie vel falsitatem non nisi in solo intellectu esse posse, sed tantummodo ab aliis doubus suam saepe originem ducere, ……
(pag. 66)
Zaměří tedy veškeré úsilí na rozlišení a prozkoumání těch tří způsobů poznání, a když uvidí, že pravda či nepravda může ve vlastní smyslu být pouze v samotném intelektu, zatím co v oněch dalších dvou má často jen svůj původ, …
(str. 67)
(7192, Regulae ad directionem ingenii – Pravidla pro vedení rozumu, Praha 2000, str. 66 a 67.)

Rudyard Kipling ()

If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowence for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: „Hold on!“
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings – nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which ist more – you’ll be a Man, my son!
(3699, Sixty Poems, London 1945, p. 111–12.)