A Survey of Greek CivilizationChautauqua-Century Press, 1896 - 337 páginas |
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Página 260 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Página 155 - ... the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.
Página 274 - The wisdom of the scribe cometh by opportunity of leisure; And he that hath little business shall become wise. How shall he become wise that holdeth the plough, That glorieth in the shaft of the goad, That driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, And whose discourse is of the stock of bulls? He will set his heart upon turning his furrows; And his wakefulness is to give his heifers their fodder.
Página 153 - Any agreements sworn to by either party, when they could do nothing else, were binding as long as both were powerless. But he who on a favourable opportunity first took courage and struck at his enemy when he saw him off his guard, had greater pleasure in a perfidious than he would have had in an open act of revenge...
Página 274 - They shall not be sought for in the council of the people, and in the assembly they shall not mount on high...
Página 159 - Hurled from the hands of Love, the boy with Zeus for sire. Idly, how idly, by the Alpheian river 10 And in the Pythian shrines of Phoebus, quiver Blood-offerings from the bull, which Hellas heaps: While Love we worship not — the Lord of men ! Worship not him, the very key who keeps Of Aphrodite, when She closes up her dearest chamber-portals: — Love, when he comes to mortals, Wide-wasting, through those deeps of woes beyond the deep!
Página 152 - And revolution brought upon the cities of Hellas many terrible calamities, such as have been and always will be while human nature remains the same, but which are more or less aggravated and differ in character with every new combination of circumstances.
Página 153 - ... evil one who had no idea of it. The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why. (For party associations are not based upon any established law, nor do they seek the public good; they are formed in defiance of the laws and from self-interest.) The seal of good faith was not divine law but fellowship in crime.
Página 153 - For the leaders on either side used specious names, the one party professing to uphold the constitutional equality of the many, the other the wisdom of an aristocracy, while they made the public interests, to which in name they were devoted, in reality their prize. Striving in every way to overcome each other, they committed the most monstrous crimes; yet even these were surpassed by the magnitude of their revenges which they pursued to the very utmost, neither party observing any definite limits...
Página 152 - The meaning of words had no longer the same relation to things, but was changed by them as they thought proper.