Posts tagged classics

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Peanuts, Puppies, Pain, Cold, and Loneliness

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”—Charles Schultz

I’ve been reading some old writers this week (Ovid, Tacitus). The Latin “algeo” means “to feel cold.” It comes from Greek άλγέω and άλγος (algeo/algos) which mean “to feel pain” and “to feel cold.” 

In these cultures pain and cold were synonymous. They used the same expression we use today about “being left out in the cold” to mean that someone is neglected, unwanted, or discarded.

Poverty might be described as “algentes togae”—torn clothes—with the implication that anyone who wore them would feel the cold, both literally and figuratively. 

Feeling cold, feeling pain, enduring poverty, knowing neglect, and being discarded; they’re all facets of the same sad stone.

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One will know the measure of a man or woman by how they behave when it’s their turn to be God.
Occipitus
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nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuit.

Seneca

There has been no great talent without an element of madness.

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Happiness

  1. Herodotus: Call no man happy until he is dead.
  2. Socrates: Call no man unhappy until he is married.
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When all you have is a hammer and hacksaw, every problem looks like a house guest.
Procrustes
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Instrumentum fuerit modificatur.

Foramina Disclipina

The instrument has been modified.

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Posthumous publication

shitmystudentswrite:

Plato wrote the last days of Socrates, and describes within that document how Socrates comes to accept his death is 399 B.C. The text was written the years following his death but wasn’t officially published by Penguin Classics until 1954.

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If history is made to give life back to the dead,
then surely our music exists to give life to the living
and our art to carry us beyond our death.
Occipitus
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Posted 12 months ago
20. Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
21. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go ever flowing on.
22. Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes moist.
23. It is in changing that things find repose.
24. Time is a child moving counters in a game; the royal power is a child’s.
Heraclitus (circa 500 BCE)
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The unexamined loaf isn’t worth leavening.
Occipitus
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Posted 9 months ago
There are more rich lazy people than there are poor lazy people.
Occipitus