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325ffad
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
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the-iliad
homer
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Homer |
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81a2528
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After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?
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war
passion
past
truth
troy
passage-of-time
justification
iliad
mythology
right
homer
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Umberto Eco |
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f7fa717
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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: (1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction; (2) cowardice, which leads to capture; (3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; (4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame; (5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.
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war
general
fault
reckless
temper
lead
worry
danger
cowardice
shame
trouble
destruction
homer
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Sun Tzu |
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24c57f0
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Not like would I write, Not like if I might, Not like at his best, Not like or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all.
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shakespeare
dante-alighieri
homer
johann-wolfgang-von-goethe
goethe
william-shakespeare
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William Allingham |
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2218bce
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"Homer, in the second book of the Iliad says with fine enthusiasm, "Give me masturbation or give me death." Caesar, in his Commentaries, says, "To the lonely it is company; to the forsaken it is a friend; to the aged and to the impotent it is a benefactor. They that are penniless are yet rich, in that they still have this majestic diversion." In another place this experienced observer has said, "There are times when I prefer it to sodomy." Robinson Crusoe says, "I cannot describe what I owe to this gentle art." Queen Elizabeth said, "It is the bulwark of virginity." Cetewayo, the Zulu hero, remarked, "A jerk in the hand is worth two in the bush." The immortal Franklin has said, "Masturbation is the best policy." Michelangelo and all of the other old masters--"old masters," I will remark, is an abbreviation, a contraction--have used similar language. Michelangelo said to Pope Julius II, "Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse." Mr. Brown, here, in one of his latest and most graceful poems, refers to it in an eloquent line which is destined to live to the end of time--"None knows it but to love it; none name it but to praise."
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caesar
cetewayo
iliad
michelangelo
onanism
queen-elizabeth
robinson-crusoe
sodomy
the-iliad
zulu
masturbation
homer
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Mark Twain |
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7714007
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What overlooked was the hair-raising possibility that God might out-Luther Luther. A special area in hell might be reserved for those who go to mass. Or God might punish those whose faith is prompted by prudence. Perhaps God prefers the abstinent to those who whore around with some denomination he despises. Perhaps he reserves special rewards for those who deny themselves the comfort of belief. Perhaps the intellectual ascetic will win all while those who compromised their intellectual integrity lose everything. There are many other possibilities. There might be many gods, including one who favors people like ; but the other gods might overpower or outvote him, a la . might well have applied to Pascal his cutting remark about : when he wagered on God, the great mathematician 'became an idiot.
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philosophy
immanuel-kant
mathematician
pascal
pascal-s-wager
speculation
kant
friedrich-nietzsche
nietzsche
homer
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Walter Kaufmann |
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e1e961d
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Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was that of the heroic Greek period; so said Hegel, and he demonstrated it with The Iliad: even though Agamemnon was the prime king, other kings and princes chose freely to join him and, like Achilles, they were free to withdraw from the battle. Similarly the people joined with their princes of their own free will; there was no law that could force them; behavior was determined only by personal motives, the sense of honor, respect, humility before a more powerful figure, fascination with a hero's courage, and so on. The freedom to participate in the struggle and the freedom to desert it guaranteed every man his independence. In this way did action retain a personal quality and thus its poetic form. Against this archaic world, the cradle of the epic, Hegel contrasts the society of his own period: organized into the state, equipped with a constitution, laws, a justice system, an omnipotent administration, ministries, a police force, and so on. The society imposes its moral principles on the individual, whose behavior is thus determined by far more anonymous wishes coming from the outside than by his own personality. And it is in such a world that the novel was born.
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classical
statism
bureaucracy
doing
hegel
iliad
ancient
homer
greece
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Milan Kundera |
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bb6b593
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"Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.
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fate
life
philosophy
iliad
homer
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Richmond Lattimore |