Im Kampf des Lebens | Im Kampf des Lebens

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

In stadio laboris

Language: Latin

Our translations: GER

In stadio laboris
Currunt omnes socii;
Sed bravium honoris,
Non seqvuntur singuli.
  Si non vis onerari,
  Caveas honorari,
  Honor vult onere gravari.

Sicut dulcedo mellis
Non evacuabitur
Acerbitasque fellis
Nunquam relaxibitur
  Sic et in praelatura,
  Nullus est sine cura,
  Rerum hoc exigit Natura.

Sed si in libertate
Vivere volueris, 
Vivas in caritate,
Sic tu non dolueris,
  Nil habes, nil dolebis,
  Perditum neque flebis,
  Sed in hoc qvod habes, gaudebis.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "In stadio laboris", 1898, from Carminalia (Three Latin Songs for Students), no. 3. [
text verified 1 time
]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Im Kampf des Lebens", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 69

Im Kampf des Lebens

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Latin

Im Kampf des Lebens
rennt ein jeder;
doch nur wenigen 
gebührt des Sieges Ehre.
Wenn du keine Bürde suchst,
hüte dich vor Ehre,
denn sie drückt dich nieder.

Wie des Honigs Süße
nie vergeht,
der Galle Bitternis
nie milder wird,
so ist kein Amt
wohl ohne Kümmernis.
Was in der Natur der Sache liegt.

So du gänzlich frei
sein willst,
musst du in Armut leben
und so kein Leid ertragen:
nichts besitzen, nichts  bedauern,
keinen Verlust beweinen,
sondern dich dessen, was du hast, erfreuen.

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Based on:

a text in Latin by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2015-10-12
Line count: 21
Word count: 84