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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.)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (60)

Itaque dum incipit esse mentis tuae, interim hoc consilio sapientium utere, ut magis ad rem existimes pertinere, quis, quam quid acceperit.
(6307, Ad Lucilium epistulae morales I, Cambridge Mass. + London1979, LIX, p. 132.)
Therefore, while you are beginning to call your mind your own, meantime apply this maxim of the wise: consider that it is more important who receives a thing, than what it is he receives.
(tamtéž, str. 131, překlad: Richard M. Gummere.)

Paul Ricœur (1980)

Ce qui m´a souvent étonné chez Heidegger, c´est qu´il ait, semble-t-il, systématiquement éludé la confrontation avec le bloc de la pensée hébraïque. Il lui est parfoi arrivé de penser à partir de l´Evangile et de la théologie chrétienne; mais toujours en évitant le massif hébraïque, qui est l´étranger absolu par rapport au discours grec, il évite la pensée éthique avec ses dimensions de relation à l´autre et à la justice, dont a tant parlé Levinas. Il traite la pensée éthique très sommairement comme pensée de valeur, telle que la pensée néo-kantienne l´avait présentée, et ne reconnaît pas sa différence radicale avec la pensée ontologique. Cette méconnaissance me semble parallèle à l´incapacité de Heidegger de fair le „pas en arrière“ d´une manière qui pourrai permettre de penser adéquatement toutes les dimensions de la tradition occidentale. La tâche de repenser la tradition chrétienne par un „pas en arrière“ a´exige-t-elle pas qu´on reconnaisse la dimension radicalement hébraïque du christianisme, qui est d´abord enraciné dans le judaïsme et seulement après dans la tradition grecque? Pourquoi réfléchir seulement sur Hölderlin et non pas sur les Psaumes, sur Jérémie? C´est là ma question. (Note introductive, in: 5349, Heidegger et la question de Dieu, Paris 1980, p. 17.)