Engl 201 midterm quotes

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"Means there will come to you a strong one, / A companion who rescues a friend. [...] He will be mighty and rescue you, time and again."
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"Means there will come to you a strong one, / A companion who rescues a friend. [...] He will be mighty and rescue you, time and again."
Ninsun. Interprets a dream that her son Gilgamesh had referring to Enkidu and how important their friendship will be.
"Shall I not die too? Am I not like Enkidu?"
Gilgamesh after mourning the death of his really good friend Enkidu. After a life of feeling invincible, Gilgamesh is faced with the reality that even he will one day die.
"As for you ... let your stomach be full, / Always be happy, night and day. / Make every day a delight, / Night and day play and dance. [...] This, then, is the work of mankind."
Siduri, the tavernkeeper, tells Gilgamesh basically to live life to the fullest and not wallow in the reality that we all die because that makes for a crummy life.
"But whether he comes home to take revenge, or not, is with the gods. You must consider how best to drive these suitors from your house."
Athena dressed as Mentes, counseling Telemachus.
"You would have been thrilled if you saw him, like a lion, drenched in blood and gore."
Eurycleia telling Penelope of Odysseys' revenge.
"At that, her heart and body suddenly relaxed. She recognized the tokens he had shown her. She burst out crying and ran straight towards him and threw her arms around him, kissed his face."
Narrator describing reunion of Penelope and Odysseus
In the old days, people studied to improve themselves. Now, they study in order to impress others.
Confucius
Nowadays, people think they are dutiful sons when they feed their parents. Yet they also feed their dogs and horses. Unless there is respect, where is the difference?
Confucius
A wise man once said "there was a time when I used to listen to what people said and trusted that they would act accordingly, but now I listen to what they say and watch what they do."
Confucius
"It grieves me that as we intend to murder our relatives in our greed for pleasures, kingdoms, we are fixed on doing evil! If the sons of Dhritarashtra, armed as they are, should murder me weaponless and unresisting, I would know greater happiness!"
Arjuna
"Here Behold all the universe, beings moving and motionless, standing as one in my body, and all else that you wish to see!"Lord Krishna"The embodied one passes through childhood, youth, and then old age, then attains another body; in this the wise are undeceived."Lord Krishna"But this, I think, may not be difficult, men of Athens, to escape death, but it is far more difficult to escape wickedness; for it runs swifter than death."Plato, speaking as Socrates"For if you imagine that by putting men to death you will stop anyone from reproaching you for not living rightly, 'you are mistaken; for that method of escape is neither altogether possible nor honourable."Plato, speaking as Socrates"But if on the other hand death is like going a journey from here to another place, and what is said is true, namely that all the dead are there, what greater blessing could there be than this, my judges?"Plato, speaking as Socrates"And, first of all, he would most easily perceive shadows, afterwards the images of men and other things in water, and after that the things themselves. And with reference to these things, he would more easily see the things in the heavens, and the heavens themselves, looking in the nighttime to the light of the stars and the moon, than by day, looking on the sun and the light of the sun"Plato, speaking as Socrates"In the intellectual world the idea of the good is most remote, and scarcely to be seen; but if it be seen, it is to be deemed as indeed the cause to all of all things bright and beautiful, generating in the visible world light..."Plato, speaking as Socrates"And should he now again be obliged to give his opinion of those shadows, and to dispute about them with those who are there eternally chained, whilst yet his eyes were dazzled...?"Plato, speaking as Socrates