The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is different with every writer.
— Peter Drucker (1973) MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, Chapter 8, pg.99.
This quote is often directly attributed to Seneca, but he is referring to lines 368-369 of Works and Days by the Greek poet Hesiod :;: Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent, but midways be sparing: it is poor saving when you come to the lees. (translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White) Alternate translation: Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse. (translator unknown) Alternate translation: It is too late to be thrifty when the bottom has been reached. (translator unknown).
— Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, line 2.
(translated from Japanese) You'll have to beg much better than that.
— Notes: The Bride had pleaded with her to run, rather than fight her. After she says this to mock the Bride's attempts, she fights with her, and is killed when The Bride hits her in the head with a chair leg, before driving nails through her skull.
II n'ya que les morts qui ne reviennent pas. [translated]: It is only the dead who do not return.
— Speech, 1794, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Ad astra per aspera. translated: "to the stars through difficulties".
— State motto of Kansas, reported to have been devised by Ingalls.