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"(There is) learning in suffering/experience", or "Knowledge/knowing, or wisdom, or learning, through suffering." [26] Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 177 [27] The variant πάθος μάθος means "suffering is learning/learning is suffering." Πῆμα κακὸς γείτων, ὅσσον τ’ ἀγαθὸς μέγ’ ὄνειαρ. [28]
The sense of dum spiro spero can be found in the work of Greek poet Theocritus (3rd Century BC), who wrote: "While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none." [2] That sentiment seems to have become common by the time of Roman statesman Cicero (106 – 43 BC), who wrote to Atticus: "As in the case of a sick man one says, 'While there is life there is hope' [dum anima est, spes ...
In Greek mythology, Elpis (Ancient Greek: Ἐλπίς, romanized: Elpis, lit. 'hope') is the minor goddess of hope, about which the Greeks had ambivalent feelings. She was never the centre of a cult, as was Spes, her Roman equivalent, and was chiefly the subject of ambiguous Greek aetiological myths.
while I breathe, I hope: Cicero. Motto of the State of South Carolina. Motto of the Clan MacLennan. dum vita est, spes est: while there is life, there is hope: dum vivimus servimus: while we live, we serve: Motto of Presbyterian College. dum vivimus, vivamus: while we live, let us live [10] An encouragement to embrace life."
The passions are transliterated pathê from Greek. [1] The Greek word pathos was a wide-ranging term indicating an infliction one suffers. [2] The Stoics used the word to discuss many common emotions such as anger, fear and excessive joy. [3] A passion is a disturbing and misleading force in the mind which occurs because of a failure to reason ...
38. “Life must be lived as play.” 39. “No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.” 40. “Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the ...
9. "The best way out is always through." –Robert Frost 10. "Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles, and you have to change it."
In contrast, living things are capable of driving themselves. Plato uses this observation to illustrate his famous doctrine that the soul is a self-mover: life is self-motion, and the soul brings life to a body by moving it. Meanwhile, in the recollection and affinity arguments, the connection with life is not explicated or used at all.