εὖ γὰρ δὴ ο ἀποφηνάμενος, τί θεοῖς ὅμοιον ἔχομεν, “εὐεργεσίαν” εἴπας “καὶ ἀλήθειαν" Περὶ Ὕψους Διονυσίου Λογγίνου

τί ποτ' οὖν τὸ μειρακιῶδές ἐστιν; ἢ δῆλον ὡς σχολαστικὴ νόησις, ὑπὸ περιεργίας λήγουσα εἰς ψυχρότητα Περὶ ὕψους Διονύσιος Λογγίνος

The sea yields action to the body, meditation to the mind, the world to the world, all parts thereof to each part, by this art of arts - navigation Samuel Purchas 1613

Take back your golden fiddles, and we'll beat to open sea Rudyard Kipling, 1892

Carnal seamen, in a storm, Turn pious converts, and reform Samuel Butler 1674

ὅταν γαρ τοῖς ἀπὸ διαφόρων ἐπιτηδευμάτων βίων ζήλων ἡλικιῶν λόγων ἕν τι καὶ ταὐτὸν ἅμα περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἅπασιν δοκῇ, τόθ’ ἡ ἐξ ἀσυμφώνων ὡς κρίσις καὶ συγκατάθεσις τὴν ἐπὶ τῷ θαυμαζομένῳ πίστιν ισχυρᾶν λαμβάνει καὶ ἀναμφίλεκτον. Διονυσίου Λογγίνου

Ὅμηρος γάρ µοι δοκεῖ παραδιδοὺς τραύµατα θεῶν στάσεις τιμωρίας δάκρυα δεσμὰ πάθη πάμφυρτα τοὺς μὲν ἐπὶ τῶν Ἰλιακῶν ἀνθρώπους ὅσον ἐπὶ τῇ δυνάμει θεοὺς πεοιηκέναι, τοὺς θεοὺς δὲ ἀνθρώπους. Διονυσίου Λογγίνου

As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden. H.

Οἱ ἄρα φρονήσεως καὶ ἀρετῆς ἄπειροι, εὐωχίαις δὲ καὶ τοῖς τοιούτοις ἀεὶ συνόντες, κάτω, ὡς ἔοικεν, καὶ μέχρι πάλιν πρὸς τὸ μεταξὺ φέρονταί τε καὶ ταύτῃ πλανῶνται διὰ βίου, ὑπερβάντες δὲ τοῦτο πρὸς τὸ ἀληθῶς ἄνω οὔτε ἀνέβλεψαν πώποτε οὔτε

Τότε γὰρ ἡ τέχνη τέλειος, ἡνίκ' ἂν φύσις εἶναι δοκῇ, ἡ δ' αὖ φύσις ἐπιτυχής, ὅταν λανθάνουσα περιέχῃ τὴν τέχνην Διονυσίου Λογγίνου

ἐξῆλθον Ἕκτορές τε καὶ Σαρπηδόνες

But soul is not the whole human being, only part of one: my soul is not me Aquinas Super Epistolam Pauli Apostoli

ὅλως δὲ δάπανον ἔφην εἶναι τῶν νῦν γεννωµένων φύσεων τὴν ῥᾳθυμίαν, ᾗ πλὴν ὀλίγων πάντες ἐγκαταβιοῦμεν, οὐκ ἄλλως πονοῦντες η άναλαμβάνοντες εἰ μὴ ἐπαίνου καὶ ἡδονῆς ἕνεκα, ἀλλὰ μὴ τῆς ζήλου καὶ τιμῆς ἀξίας ποτὲ ὠφελείας. Διονυσίου Λογγίνου

The most dangerous thing in this world is a Puritan who is broadening his mind. He is just like a barbarian who is broadening his empire. More and more things do, indeed, come under his consideration; but this only means that more and more things come under his oppressing and

οὐ γὰρ τὸ εἰπεῖν καλῶς καλὸν, ἀλλὰ τὸ εἰπόντα δρᾶσαι τὰ εἰρημένα

It’s part of something I’ve noticed more and more in the modern world, appearing in all sorts of newspaper rumours and conversational catchwords; something that’s arbitrary without being authoritative. People readily swallow the untested claims of this, that, or the other.

Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae Ovid

Τὴν δὲ λέξιν ἐν τῷ χαρακτῆρι τούτῳ περιττὴν εἶναι δεῖ καὶ ἐξηλλαγμένην καὶ ἀσυνήθη μᾶλλον. οὕτω γὰρ ἕξει τὸν ὄγκον, ἡ δὲ κυρία καὶ συνήθης σαφὴς μέν ἀεὶ, τῇ δὲ καὶ εὐκαταφρόνητος. Δημητρίου περὶ λέξεως

Romani, quorum superbiam frustra per obsequium ac modestiam effugias. Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, mare scrutantur: si locuples hostis est, avari, si pauper, ambitiosi, quos non Oriens, non Occidens satiaverit: soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari