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
