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Tag: Passion

Isocrates, Letter to Demonicus 18.1

March 14, 2014 ~ sententiaeantiquae ~ Leave a comment

 

“If you are a lover of learning, then you will be much-learned.”

 

᾿Εὰν ᾖς φιλομαθὴς, ἔσει πολυμαθής.

 

(Full disclosure: I found this quotation in a funding application I was reading!)

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Bacchylides, fr. 34 (Hsch. Δ 2017)

June 24, 2013 ~ sententiaeantiquae ~ Leave a comment

“Men have ten thousand different passions.”

 

ὀργαὶ μὲν ἀνθρώπων διακριμέναι / μυρίαι

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Sophocles, Antigone 648-9

June 25, 2012 ~ sententiaeantiquae ~ Leave a comment

 

 

“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

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