“Death isn’t the most hateful thing. Worse is when someone wants to die but cannot.”
οὐ γὰρ θανεῖν ἔχθιστον, ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν θανεῖν
χρῄζων τις εἶτα μηδὲ τοῦτ᾽ ἔχῃ λαβεῖν.
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Month: January 2012
Publilius Syrus, Sententiae I.21
Pindar, Olympian 2.15-17
Not even time, the father of everything, can undo something, just or unjust, once it has been done
τῶν δὲ πεπραγμένων
ἐν δίκᾳ τε καὶ παρὰ δίκαν ἀποίητον οὐδ’ ἄν
Χρόνος ὁ πάντων πατὴρ
δύναιτο θέμεν ἔργων τέλος·
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Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.389
Homer, Iliad 1.231
You are a people eating king who rules over nobodies
δημοβόρος βασιλεὺς ἐπεὶ οὐτιδανοῖσιν ἀνάσσεις·
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Lucretius, De rerum natura 1.248-9
Euripides The Suppliants 776-7
“It is not possible to recoup one cost when it is spent: a mortal life.”
οὐκ ἔστι τἀνάλωμ᾽ ἀναλωθὲν λαβεῖν,
ψυχὴν βροτείαν
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Ovid, Ars Amatoria 1.159
Nostoi, fragment 8.1 (7W; Clement of Alexandria, 6.12.7)
“Gifts debase the minds and actions of men”
δῶρα γὰρ ἀνθρώπων νόον ἤπαφεν ἠδὲ καὶ ἔργα
What are the nostoi? (Hint: Odysseus experienced one…)
Who was Clement of Alexandria?
Martial, Epigrams 11.56.15-16
“It is easy to hate life in difficult times; he is brave who is able to live meagerly”
rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;
fortite ille facit qui miser esse potest.
