The German version:
Die Wahrheit steht allen offen; sie ist noch nicht eingenommen worden.After paraphrasing it into English and Googling, I was able to find several English translations:
-- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Truth lies open for all; it has not yet been monopolized. And there is plenty of it left even for posterity to discover.
- ... the truth is open to all and is not yet fully possessed.
- The truth is open to all; (but) her domain is not yet occupied; [and much of it remains to be discovered by the men who are yet to come.]
- Memory guards what is entrusted to us, but knowledge consists in making it our own, and not thinking of masters. If we are satisfied with what has been found out, we shall find nothing more. They who have gone before us are not our masters, but our guides. Truth is open to all, and has not yet been taken possession of, but many discoveries will be left for future ages.--Epistle xxxiii, secs. 8, 10 and 11.
The original Latin:
Patet omnibus veritas; nondum est occupata; multum ex illa etiam futuris relictum est.Source: Seneca's Moral Epistle 33 [at latinlibrary.com -- Scroll down to letter 33: XXXIII. SENECA LUCILIO SUO SALUTEM]
A little more context for Seneca's anti-maxim maxim:
For this reason, give over hoping that you can skim, by weans of epitomes, the wisdom of distinguished men. Look into their wisdom as a whole; study it as a whole. They are working out a plan and weaving together, line upon line, a masterpiece, from which nothing can be taken away without injury to the whole. Examine the separate parts, if you like, provided you examine them as parts of the man himself. She is not a beautiful woman whose ankle or arm is praised, but she whose general appearance makes you forget to admire her single attributes.Source: OCR scan of the Loeb edition at stoics.com
God our security,
who alone can defend us
against the principalities and powers
that rule this present age;
may we trust in no weapons
except the whole armor of faith,
that in dying we may live,
and, having nothing, we may own the world,
through Jesus Christ. AMEN
--Janet Morley, All desires known, 1988
who alone can defend us
against the principalities and powers
that rule this present age;
may we trust in no weapons
except the whole armor of faith,
that in dying we may live,
and, having nothing, we may own the world,
through Jesus Christ. AMEN
--Janet Morley, All desires known, 1988
