“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!)
Tag: Passion
Bacchylides, fr. 34 (Hsch. Δ 2017)
“Men have ten thousand different passions.”
ὀργαὶ μὲν ἀνθρώπων διακριμέναι / μυρίαι
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