There is no easy way to the stars from the earth.
Seneca
Original Latin, “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.” Hercules Furens, c. 40 CE.
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There is no easy way to the stars from the earth.
Seneca
Original Latin, “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.” Hercules Furens, c. 40 CE.
If a person does not know to which port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him.
Seneca
Original Latin, “ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est”. Epistolae, LXXI., 3.
A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent; if his ship be dismantled, he can yet put in trim what remains of her hull and hold her to her course.
Seneca
Moral Letters to Lucilius, circa 65.
A single lifetime, though it were wholly devoted to the study of the sky, does not suffice for the investigation of problems of such complexity. The day will yet come when posterity will be amazed that we remained ignorant of things that will to them seem so plain.
Seneca
Original work composed c. AD 62-64. First printed edition of Seneca’s Natural Questions was Venice, 1490. Open English translation, Clarke 1910. In Latin, “ Latin: “ad inquisitionem tantorum aetas una non sufficit, ut tota caelo vacet...”
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