“No one likes their own things when they look at others'”.
nulli ad aliena respicienti sua placent
Month: June 2012
Plato, Lysis 210d
“If you are wise, then everyone will be your family and friend.”
ἐὰν μὲν ἄρα σοφὸς γένῃ, ὦ παῖ, πάντες σοι φίλοι καὶ πάντες σοι οἰκεῖοι ἔσονται
(Because you are useful and good)
Martial, Epigrams 11.32.8
“It is not poverty, Nestor, to have nothing”.
non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.
Sophocles, Antigone 648-9
“Son, never lose your mind for the pleasure of a woman.”
μή νύν ποτ᾽, ὦ παῖ, τὰς φρένας ὑφ᾽ ἡδονῆς
γυναικὸς οὕνεκ᾽ ἐκβάλῃς
Poor advice, perhaps, in the city of Thebes
Cicero, On Old Age 24
“No one is so old that he thinks he could not live another year”
nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos, 981-2
Horace, Epistulae 1.18.68
“Always take care what you say, as well as about whom, and to whom you say it”.
quid de quoque viro et cui dicas, saepe videto.
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 50
Phaedrus, Fabulae 1.10.1-2
“Whoever becomes famous for a shameful deceit loses all credibility — even if he tells the truth”.
quicumque turpi fraude semel innotuit,
etiam si verum dicit, amittit fidem.
Heraclitus fr. 44
“The people must fight for law just as they would for the walls”
μάχεσθαι χρὴ τὸν δῆμον ὑπὲρ τοῦ νόμου
ὅκωσπερ τείχεος.
Unusually lucid for the obscure philosopher