Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... γὰρ ὁ θεὸς τὰς ἂγαν προθυμίας . " God hateth over- zeal . " - EURIPIDES . Orestes , 708 . - ( Menelaus . ) 99 N'écoutez ni le Père de Tourne- mine ni moi , parlant l'un de l'autre , car nous avons cessé d'être amis . ( Don't listen ...
... γὰρ ὁ θεὸς τὰς ἂγαν προθυμίας . " God hateth over- zeal . " - EURIPIDES . Orestes , 708 . - ( Menelaus . ) 99 N'écoutez ni le Père de Tourne- mine ni moi , parlant l'un de l'autre , car nous avons cessé d'être amis . ( Don't listen ...
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... γὰρ ἐγὼ εἶναι τὸ δίκαιον οὐκ ἄλλο τι ἢ τὸ τοῦ κρείττονος ξυμφέρον . ( “ I proclaim that might is right , justice the interest of the stronger . Jowett ) . PLATO , Republic , I. , 12 ( Thrasymachus . ) La raison du plus fort est toujours ...
... γὰρ ἐγὼ εἶναι τὸ δίκαιον οὐκ ἄλλο τι ἢ τὸ τοῦ κρείττονος ξυμφέρον . ( “ I proclaim that might is right , justice the interest of the stronger . Jowett ) . PLATO , Republic , I. , 12 ( Thrasymachus . ) La raison du plus fort est toujours ...
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... γὰρ σὺ τὴν πόλιν ἀπέβαλες , οὐκ ἂν ἐγὼ παρέλαβον . ( Very true ; for if you had not lost the city , I could never have recaptured it ) . FABIUS MAXIMUS ( 275-202 B.C. ) -to Marcus Livius , who had been in command of Tarentum when ...
... γὰρ σὺ τὴν πόλιν ἀπέβαλες , οὐκ ἂν ἐγὼ παρέλαβον . ( Very true ; for if you had not lost the city , I could never have recaptured it ) . FABIUS MAXIMUS ( 275-202 B.C. ) -to Marcus Livius , who had been in command of Tarentum when ...
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... γὰρ νικήσομεν . ( So much the better , for then we shall conquer more ) . PELOPIDAS ( d . 364 B.C . ) — when told that Alexander , the tyrant , was advancing to meet him with a great force ( Plutarch , Lives : Pelopidas , 32 ) ...
... γὰρ νικήσομεν . ( So much the better , for then we shall conquer more ) . PELOPIDAS ( d . 364 B.C . ) — when told that Alexander , the tyrant , was advancing to meet him with a great force ( Plutarch , Lives : Pelopidas , 32 ) ...
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... γὰρ Αθηναίους τοῦτο λαλεῖν , ἵνα μή τι χεῖρον περὶ ἐμοῦ λέγωσι . ( Just what I wanted has hap- pened , then ; for I wish the Athenians to gossip about this , that they might not say some- thing worse about me ) . ALCIBIADES ( 450-404 ...
... γὰρ Αθηναίους τοῦτο λαλεῖν , ἵνα μή τι χεῖρον περὶ ἐμοῦ λέγωσι . ( Just what I wanted has hap- pened , then ; for I wish the Athenians to gossip about this , that they might not say some- thing worse about me ) . ALCIBIADES ( 450-404 ...
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ABBÉ alluding asked Attributed battle BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl bien Biog c'est Cæsar CARDINAL Chamber of Deputies Charles COMTE death Dict Dieu Diogenes Laertius DUKE OF WELLINGTON Dying words Earl of Beaconsfield EDMUND BURKE Emperor enemy Engl England fait faut femme Français France French grand HENRY Hist homme honour House of Commons Hume j'ai jamais JOHN June king Last words Le Moniteur universel letter liberty Lives Lord LOUIS XIV Madam Mémoires MIRABEAU Molière Moniteur mort mourir n'est NAPOLEON nation never Paris Parliament Phocion phrase Plutarch PRESIDENT PRINCE BISMARCK Prussian qu'il qu'on Queen quoted referring Reichstag remark reply rien saying Sire soldiers speech Suetonius thou tion tout Voltaire W. E. GLADSTONE WELLINGTON 1769 WILLIAM γὰρ δὲ καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τὴν τὸ Τὸν τοὺς