Instead Of A Cigarette » Quotes http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com Stop Smoking Culture Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:06:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Status of Women http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com/the-status-of-women/stop-smoking/ http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com/the-status-of-women/stop-smoking/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:31:44 +0000 hag http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com/the-status-of-women/


“You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.”

Prime Minister of India 1947-1964 Jawaharlal NEHRU.

Nehru was the greatest emancipator of women in India (after the independence, full equal rights were guarenteed to women in the Fundamental Rights of the Indian Constitution).

]]> http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com/the-status-of-women/stop-smoking/feed/ 0 One should eat to live, and not live to eat http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com/one-should-eat-to-live-and-not-live-to-eat/stop-smoking/ http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com/one-should-eat-to-live-and-not-live-to-eat/stop-smoking/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:06:05 +0000 hag http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com/one-should-eat-to-live-and-not-live-to-eat/


Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.

(Latin Esse = “to eat” (German, essen), conjugated edo, edis or es, edit or est, edimus, editis or estis, edunt in the present active. The subjunctive is edam, edas, edat, edamus, edatis, edant. Vivas is also subjunctive, ut (so that) demands it. The verb oportet is impersonal, used in the third person singular only, meaning “it is necessary”.)

This famous proverb by Cicero was also quoted by the French playwright Molière in his piece L’Avare (1668): On doit manger pour vivre, et non vivre pour manger.

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Κρεῖττον σιωπᾶν ἐστιν ἢ λαλεῖν μάτην
“Better to keep silence than to speak inappropriately”
MENANDER (c. 342–291 BC), Monosticha or Sententiae, 290.

Menander comicusMenander, Greek dramatist from Athens, was the author of more than a hundred comedies. Until recently, all that was known of Menander were fragments and his moral maxims or monostichs, which were learned by Ancient Greek schoolboys.

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Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
“I am human, nothing that is human is alien to me.”
TERENCE (c. 185-159 BC), Heauton Timoroumenos.

TerenceTerence is, after Plautus, the greatest Roman comic dramatist. The plays of Plautus are full of life and vigor, while the works of Terence show more insight and philosophy. The verse quoted above is certainly his most praised and admired sentence.

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prisoner_sm.jpgHammer into Anvil is an episode of the famous English 1960’s television program The Prisoner. When Number Two calls Number Six to the green dome the first time, he threatens to break him, quoting Goethe: “Du mußt Amboß oder Hammer sein” (”You must be Anvil or Hammer”) “And you see me as the anvil?” asks Number Six, to which Number Two answers “Precisely. I am going to hammer you.” The interesting thing is that Number Two has the analogy backwards: to quote George Orwell’s classic essay Politics and the English Language: “In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about.” The writer undoubtedly knew of this common mistake and used it to form the title and the theme of the episode, wherein Number Two hammers desperately away at Number Six, who with anvil-like calm, breaks him: “Hammer Into Anvil”.

]]> http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com/ambos-oder-hammer-sein/stop-smoking/feed/ 0 The First 2 Verses of the Iliad http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com/first-verses-of-homers-iliad/stop-smoking/ http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com/first-verses-of-homers-iliad/stop-smoking/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:37:11 +0000 hag http://instead-of-a-cigarette.com/first-verses-of-homers-iliad/


Sing the rage, goddess, of Achilles son of Peleus,
This destructive rage, that sent thousands of torments on the Achaeans(…)

Μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος
οὐλομένην, ἣ μυρί᾿ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγε᾿ ἔθηκε(…)

These are the two first verses of Homer’s Iliad, which relates Achilles’ rage when Agamemnon, the Great King of the Greeks (the Achaeans), takes the slave woman Briseis for himself. Because of this, Achilles will refuse to fight and help the Achaeans against the Trojans…

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