Exam 1 Quote Identification (The Ancient Near East and Hebrews-The Roman Republic)

the Divine protector of the land

Hammurabi, Code of Hammurabi

whom the wise god Ma-ma has clothed with complete power

Hammurabi,, Code of Hammurabi

And after antiochuc had smitten egypt he returned again in the hundred forty and third year, and went up against Israel and Jerusalem with a great multitude

Maccabees

in those days went there out of israel wicked men who persuaded many, saying, "Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen that are round about us

Maccabees

whereupon they built a place of exercise at Jerusalem according to the customs of the heathen

Maccabees

As for those of you who are now too old to have children, I would ask you to count as gain the greater part of your life, in which you have been happy, and remember that what remains is not long.

Pericles, Funeral Oration

Future ages will wonder at us

Pericles, Funeral Oration

However, the fact is that this institution was set up and approved by our forefathers, and it my duty to follow the tradition and do my best to meet the wishes and the expectations of every one of you.

Pericles, Funeral Oration

It is for you to try to be like them. Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Pericles, Funeral Oration

Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people.

Pericles, Funeral Oration

Taking everything together then, I declare that out city is an education to Greece

Pericles, Funeral Oration

The greatest glory of a women is to be least talked about by men, whether they are praising or criticizing you.

Pericles, Funeral Oration

There are certain advantages, I think, in our way of meeting danger voluntarily, with an easy mind, instead of with a laborious training, ,with natural rather than with state-induced courage

Pericles, Funeral Oration

This is peculiarity of ours: we do no say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

Pericles, Funeral Oration

To discuss the spirit in which we faced our trials and also our constitution and the way of life which has made us great.

Pericles, Funeral Oration

We are free and tolerant in our private lives; but in public affairs we keep to the law

Pericles, Funeral Oration

Hating the men who have acquired their property and conspiring against them and the rest of society, they long for a revolution

Plato, Republic

Insolence they call good breeding, Anarchy freedom

Plato, Republic

every man will arrange his own manner of life to suit his pleasure. The result will be a greater variety of individuals than under any other constitution

Plato, Republic

the citizens become so sensitive that they resent the slightest application of control as intolerable tyranny, and in their resolve to have no master they end by disregarding even the law, written or unwritten

Plato, Republic

when he is told that some pleasures should be sought and valued as arising from desires of a higher order, others chastised and enslaved because the desires are base, he will shut the gates of the citadel against the messengers of truth, shaking his head and declaring that one appetite is as good as another and all must have their equal rights

Plato, Republic

if they could lay hands on the man who was trying to set them free and lead them up, they would kill him.

Plato, Republic (allegory of the cave)

If I think that anyone is wise whether citizen or stranger; and when I think that any person is not wise, I try to help the cause of God by proving that he is not...

Plato, The Apology

Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.

Plato, The Apology

is my belief that no greater good has ever befallen you in this city than my service to my God; for I spend all my time going about trying to persuade you, young and old, to make you first and chief concern not for your bodies nor for you possessions, but for the highest welfare of your souls, proclaiming as I go

Plato, The Apology

We can see at once that a society cannot hold wealth in honor and at the same time establish a proper self-control in its citizens. One or the other must be sacrificed.

Plato, The Republic

One man coveted a house, another lands, nor had the victors any modesty or moderation, but committed foul and cruel actions against the citizens

Sallust, the conspiracy of catiline

citizens contended with citizens concerning virtue. In the worship of the gods they were magnificent, at home frugal, and faithful to their friend

Sallust, the conspiracy of catiline

contrary to the custom of the ancients, had treated luxuriously and too liberally the army which he had commanded in Asia, in order to make it faithful to himself.

Sallust, the conspiracy of catiline

they were greedy of praise, lavish of their money. They longed for boundless glory, moderate riches.

Sallust, the conspiracy of catiline

whey by labor and justice the state increased, great kings were conquered in war, fierce nations and mighty people were subdued by arms, Carthage the rival of the Roman empire, had utterly perished, all seas and lands were open, fortune began to be enraged, and confound everything. They who had easily endured dangers, doubtful and difficult trials, to them ease and riches, desirable by the rest of mankind, became a burden and a calamity. Therefore at first the love of money, then that of power increased.

Sallust, the conspiracy of catiline

As for yourself, if you go to one of the neighboring states, such as Thebes or Megara, which are both well governed, you will enter them as an enemy to their constitution, and all good patriots will eye you with suspicions a destroyer of law and order.

Socrates, Crito

That the really important thing is not to live, but to live well

Socrates, Crito

The same which you used here, that goodness and integrity, institutions and laws, are the most precious possessions of mankind?

Socrates, Crito

You did not choose Sparta or Crete--your favorite models of good government

Socrates, Crito

every art and every inquiry and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good...the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Aristotle, Nicomachean ethics

if happiness is activity in accordance with virtue

Aristotle, Nicomachean ethics

Is the excellence of a good man and that of a good citizen identical or different?

Aristotle, Politics

True statesman must therefore have their eyes open not only to what is the absolute best, but also to what is the best in relation to actual conditions

Aristotle, Politics

a citizen in this strict sense is best defined by the one criterion, " a man who shares in the administration of justice and in the holding of office

Aristotle, Politics

first one has to consider which is the best constitution k and what qualities a constitution must have to come closest to the ideal when there are no external factors. Secondly, politics has to consider which sort of constitution suits which sort of civic body.

Aristotle, Politics

if follows that...the citizen under each different kind of constitution must also necessarily be different

Aristotle, Politics

there are others, however, who regard the control of slaves by a master as contrary to nature

Aristotle, Politics

things that exist by nature, and that man by nature an animal intended to live in a polis

Aristotle, Politics

Cicero knew the republic had fallen long before his own age, its spirit being forgotten

Cicero, on duties

all good actions in life come from maintaining your responsibilities when you neglect them the result is discredit

Cicero, on duties

benefit resulted from right conduct

Cicero, on duties

in hopes it might present an anamnesis of the republican spirit to rome or to whatever civilization might follow in its wake

Cicero, on duties

it is an evil business when on tries to do something with money that should be done by virtue

Cicero, on duties

they were greedy of praise, lavish of their money. They longed for boundless glory, moderate riches

Cicero, on duties

when you examine everything with you mind and spirit, no relationship is more important non is more attractive than the relationship each one of us has with our country. our parents are dear, our children are dear, our relatives, our friends; but the father land alone embraces all of our deep feelings.

Cicero, on duties

you must beware of desire and pleasure. you must also shun the greed for money

Cicero, on duties

all things serve and obey the laws of the universe, our body likewise obeys the same laws

Epictetus, the discourses

and further, opposition, besides that it is unreasonable, and produces nothing except a vain struggle, throws us into pain and sorrows.

Epictetus, the discourses

from every event that happens in the world it is easy to celebrate providence if a person has but these two qualities in himself: a faculty of considering what happens to each individual and a grateful temper

Epictetus, the discourses

if the mere external image of god were present, you would not dare to act as you do

Epictetus, the discourses

men alone are qualified to partake of a communication with the deity, being connected with him by reason; why may not such a one call himself a citizen of the universe? Why not a son of God?

Epictetus, the discourses

you are a primary existence. you are a distinct portion of the essence of god, and contain a certain part of him in yourself.

Epictetus, the discourses

believe that god is a living being immortal and blessed

Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

for there are gods , and the knowledge of them is manifest; but they are not such as the multitude believe

Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

so we must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness

Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

were composed of atoms that simply broke apart at death

Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus

death is nothing to us

Epicurus, letter to Menoeceus

fate, which we introduce as sovereign overall things, he scorns, affirming rather that somethings happen of necessity, others by chance, other through our own agency...necessity destroys responsibility

Epicurus, letter to Menoeceus

pleasure is our first and kindred good

Epicurus, letter to Menoeceus

when we say, then, that pleasure is the end and aim, we do not mean the pleasures of the prodigal or the pleasures of sensability

Epicurus, letter to Menoeceus

you shall not affirm him anything that is foreign to his immortality or that is repugnant to his blessedness

Epicurus, letter to Menoeceus

he who has a clear and certain understanding of these things will direct every preference and aversion toward securing health of body and tranquility of mind, seeing that this is the sum and end of a blessed life

Epicurus, letter to Menoecueus

So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people; for the people heard that day, "The king is grieving for his son."

Hebrews: Kingship

We give our obedience to those whom we put in positions of authority, and we obey the laws themselves, especially those which are for the protection of the oppressed, and those unwritten laws which it is an acknowledged shame to break.

Pericles, Funeral Oration

What I would prefer is that you should fix your eyes every day on the greatness of Athens as she really is, and should fall in love with her. When you realize her greatness then reflect that what made her great was men with a spirit of adventure, men who knew their duty, and who were ashamed to fall below a certain standard.

Pericles, Funeral Oration

When the bones have been laid in the earth, a man chosen by the city for his intellectual gifts and for his general reputation makes an appropriate speech in praise of the dead, and after the speech all depart. This is the procedure at these burials, and all through the war.

Pericles, Funeral Oration

by their courage and their virtues, have handed it on to us a free country. They certainly deserve our praise.

Pericles, Funeral Oration

As for themselves, luxurious indolence of body and mind makes their young men too lazy and effeminate to resist pleasure or to endure pain

Plato, Republic

First of all, they are free. Liberty and free speech are rife everywhere

Plato, Republic

Many people might think this unaccountable; but in my opinion their object is to use it as a check upon the common people. if it were possible to form a state wholly of philosophers, such a custom would perhaps be unnecessary

Polybius, the histories

a constitution than which it is impossible to find a better

Polybius, the histories

after the burial and all the usual ceremonies have been performed, they place the likeness of the deceased in the most conspicuous spot in his house, surmounted by a wooden canopy or shrine

Polybius, the histories

an examination of a constitution should be conducted in the same way

Polybius, the histories

apart from anything else, Greek statesmen, if entrusted with a single talent, though protected by ten checking clerks

Polybius, the histories

as for the Roman constitution, it had three elements, each of them possessing sovereign powers and their respective share of power in the whole state had been regulated with such a scrupulous regard to equality and equilibrium

Polybius, the histories

but the most important difference for the better which the Roman commonwealth appears to me to display is in their religious beliefs

Polybius, the histories

for when any one of the three classes becomes puffed up, and manifests an inclination to be contentious and unduly encroaching, the mutual interdependency of all the three, and the possibility of the pretensions of any one being checked and thwarted by the others, must plainly check this tendency; and so the proper equilibrium is maintained by the impulsiveness of the one part being checked by its fear of the other...

Polybius, the histories

now in every practical undertaking by a state we must regard as the most powerful agent for success or failure the form its constitution

Polybius, the histories

romans, in their magistracies and embassies, men have the handling of a great amount of money, and yet from pure respect to their oath keep their faith intact.

Polybius, the histories

the fact is that italians as a nation are by nature superior to Phoenicians and Libyans both in physical strength and courage; but still their habits also do much to inspire the youth with enthusiasm for such exploits. One example will be sufficient of the pains taken by the Roman state to turn out men ready to endure anything to win a reputation in their country for valor.

Polybius, the histories

they have their hopes of freedom ever resting on the courage of mercenary troops; the Roman on the valor of their own citizens and the aid of their allies

Polybius, the histories

under what kind of constitution, it came about that nearly the whole world fell under the power of Tome in somewhat less than 53 years--an event certainly without precedent. This being my settled purpose, I could see no more fitting period than the present for making a pause, and examining the truth of the remarks about to be made on this constitution.

Polybius, the histories

When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless. And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."

The Hebrews: Covenant and Law

A man who shares in the administration of justice and in the holding of office

The Politics, Aristotle

The attainment of the good law-giver and the true statesman must therefore have their eyes open not only to what is the absolute best, but also to what is the best in relation to the conditions.

The Politics, Aristotle

If the aim of life in an oligarchy is to become as rich as possible, that insatiable craving would bring about the transition to democracy

The Republic, Plato