Honors 101 Exam 2
"all of a sudden he will catch sight of something wonderfully beautiful in its nature; that, Socrates, is the reason for all his earlier labors."
Plato's Symposium Diotima's Speech 211A Knowing Love
"only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue (because he is in touch with the true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given birth to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he."
Plato's Symposium Diotima's Speech 212A Knowing wisdom, beauty and love and therefore becoming a god.
"Besides, no one will die for you but a lover, and a lover will do this even if she's a woman."
Plato's Symposium Phaedrus' Speech 179B
"the gods honor virtue most highly when it belongs to Love."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Phaedrus, honors pederastic love and argues that love instills a sense of shame, pride, sense of what is good
"So if something needs beauty and has got no beauty at all, would you say that it is beautiful?"
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Socrate's, questioning Agathon after his speech
"he is the youngest of the gods and stays young forever."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Agathon: speaks of the virtues of love, praises love for being young and delicate
"I conclude that you thought Love was being loved rather than being a lover."
Plato's Symposium, Diotima speech: Eros is the desire for perpetual possession of the good/the beautiful, Eros is the desire to give birth in beauty
"Love could not inspire him with courage, and make him as brave as if he'd been born a hero."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Phaedrus, honors pederastic love and argues that love instills a sense of shame, pride, sense of what is good
"I am in ten-thousand fold poverty because of my devotion of the god."
Plato's the Apology, Socrates' is blamed for the actions of his students, but he says no proof he taught them
"But Troy entrusts her holy things and household gods to you."
Aeneid 400 Hector to Aeneas
"There days of gladness lie in wait for you: a kingdom and a royal bride. Enough of tears for loved Creusa.
Aeneid Book II 1056 Creusa telling Aeneas of his fate
"Insane, I seize my weapons. There's no sense, yet my spirit burns to gather a band for battle, to rush out against the citadel with my companions. Rage and anger drive my mind. My only thought: how fine a thing it is to die in arms."
Aeneid Book II 428 Aeneas telling his first thought when Troy is falling
"Stop your quarrel. It is not my own free will that leads to Italy."
Aeneid Book IV 491 Aeneas telling Dido he must leave her
"though groaning long and shaken in his mind because of his great love, nevertheless pious Aeneas carries out the gods' instructions."
Aeneid Book IV 542 Aeneas leaves Dido even though he loves her.
"he is battered on this side and on that by assiduous words; he feels care in his mighty chest, and yet his mind cannot be moved; the tears fall, useless."
Aeneid Book IV 614 Aeneas must leave Dido despite her sister's pleas to stay.
"Roman, these will be your arts: to teach the ways of peace to those you conquer, to spare defeated peoples, and tame the proud."
Aeneid Book VI 1135 Aeneas is being told of his future generations
"Aeneas marvels at his mother's gift, the scenes on Vulcan's shield; and he is glad for all these images, though he does not know what they mean. Upon his shoulder he lifts up the fame and fate of his sons' sons."
Aeneid Book VII 951 Aeneas getting ready for war
"whatever fortune each may find today, what hope each side may follow, I shall not care if the Trojans are besieged because of the Italians' destiny or for their own mistakes or their misguided omens."
Aeneid Book X 154 Jupiter speaks to the Pantheon
Then to his flank his shield is fitted; to his back, his corselet; and dressed in mail, he hugs Ascanius and through his helmet gently kisses him."
Aeneid Book XII Aeneas and Ascanius are about to go off to battle.
"when he encounters a soul with a harsh character, he turns away; but when he finds a soft and gentle character, he settles down in it."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Agathon: speaks of the virtues of love, praises love for being young and delicate
" 'Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, and for our desire to be complete." Love does the best th
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Aristophanes, love emerges out of human weakness- the attraction we feel toward another person results because we are not our whole selves
Love does the best that can be done for the time being: he draws us toward what belongs to us."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Aristophanes, love emerges out of human weakness- the attraction we feel toward another person results because we are not our whole selves
"The purpose of this was so that, when a man embraced a woman, he would cast his seed and they would have children; but when male embraced male, they would have the satisfaction of intercourse... this, then is the source of our desire to love each other."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Aristophanes, love emerges out of human weakness- the attraction we feel toward another person results because we are not our whole selves
"you offer me the merest appearance of beauty, and in return you want the thing itself, 'gold in exchange for bronze.'"
Plato's Symposium Alcibiades' Speech 218E Socrates telling Alcibiades how he is asking for wisdom in exchange for beauty which is entirely an unfair trade.
"This, then, is the source of our desire to love each other. Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature."
Plato's Symposium Aristophanes' Speech 191D
"'Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete."
Plato's Symposium Aristophanes' Speech 192E
"But then anything he finds his way to always slips away"
Plato's Symposium Diotima's Speech 203E Story of Eros/Love
"In a word, then, love is wanting to possess the good forever."
Plato's Symposium Diotima's Speech 206A Diotima to Socrates
"It is giving birth in beauty, whether in body or in soul."
Plato's Symposium Diotima's Speech 206B Diotima to Socrates
"Now, why reproduction? It's because reproduction goes on forever; it is what mortals have in place of immortality."
Plato's Symposium Diotima's Speech 206E Diotima to Socrates
"For nothing done properly and in accordance with our customs would ever have provoked such righteous disapproval."
Plato's Symposium Pausanias' Speech 181E
"In truth, the gods honor virtue most highly when it belongs to Love."
Plato's Symposium Phaedrus' Speech 180A
"he likes to say he's ignorant and knows nothing. Isn't this just like Silenus?"
Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades comparing Socrates to a statue that on the outside is ugly and appears to be hollow but on the inside is filled with golden statues
"Believe me, it couldn't matter less to him if a boy is beautiful."
Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades: makes his speech directed at Socrates- states that Socrates isn't who he appears to be because he pretends to love boys and that he possess ignorance
"He traps me, you see, and he makes me admit that my political career is a waste of time, while all the matters is what I most neglect: my personal shortcomings, which cry out for the closest attention."
Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades: makes his speech directed at Socrates- states that Socrates isn't who he appears to be because he pretends to love boys and that he possess ignorance
"he presents himself as your lover, and, before you know it, you're in love with him yourself!"
Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades: makes his speech directed at Socrates- states that Socrates isn't who he appears to be because he pretends to love boys and that he possess ignorance
"my night with Socrates went no further than if is spent it with my own father or older brother!"
Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades: makes his speech directed at Socrates- states that Socrates isn't who he appears to be because he pretends to love boys and that he possess ignorance
"So naturally I took great pains with my appearance: I'm going to the house of a good-looking man; I had to look my best."
Plato's Symposium, Conversation between Socrates and Aristodemus- Socrates tells of the dinner party her is going to and invites Aristodemus
"that one day he ran into Socrates, who had just bathed and put on his fancy sandals-both very unusual events."
Plato's Symposium, Conversation between Socrates and Aristodemus- Socrates tells of the dinner party her is going to and invites Aristodemus
"He who is wise in any of these ways is a man of spirit, but he who is wise in any other way, in a profession or any manual work, is merely a mechanic."
Plato's Symposium, Diotima questioning Socrates, ove is not good and beautiful because he is in need of good and beautiful things, love is neither mortal nor immortal, but is a spirit, which falls somewhere between being a god and being human.
"In a word then, love is wanting to possess the good forever."
Plato's Symposium, Diotima speech: Eros is the desire for perpetual possession of the good/the beautiful, Eros is the desire to give birth in beauty
"It is giving birth in beauty, whether in body or in soul."
Plato's Symposium, Diotima speech: Eros is the desire for perpetual possession of the good/the beautiful, Eros is the desire to give birth in beauty
'Now, some people are pregnant in body, and for this reason turn more to women and pursue love in that way... while others are pregnant in soul- because there surely are those who are even more pregnant in their souls than in their bodies, and these are pregnant with what is fitting for a soul to bear and bring to birth."
Plato's Symposium, Diotima speech: Eros is the desire for perpetual possession of the good/the beautiful, Eros is the desire to give birth in beauty
"when Socrates is around, nobody can even get close to a good-looking man."
Plato's Symposium, Final Dialogue: Socrates warns Agathon that the sole purpose was to create trouble between Socrates and Agathon.
"My wisdom is of no account- a shadow in a dream- while yours is bright and has a splendid future."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Agathon at Socrates arrival
"Socrates, come lie down next to me. Who knows, if I touch you, I may catch a little bit of wisdom that came to you on the porch."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Agathon at Socrates arrival
"Love is neither the cause nor the victim of any injustice"
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Agathon: speaks of the virtues of love, praises love for being young and delicate
"Love does not occur only in the human soul; it is not simply the attraction we feel toward human beauty: it is a significantly broader phenomenon."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Erximachus, endorses the idea of noble and vulgar love, sees love as present within the human body and it is through the work of love, our bodies are brought to a state of health
"Love is a deity of the greatest importance."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Erximachus, endorses the idea of noble and vulgar love, sees love as present within the human body and it is through the work of love, our bodies are brought to a state of health
"Medicine, therefore, is guided everywhere by the god of love, and so are physical education and farming as well."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Erximachus, endorses the idea of noble and vulgar love, sees love as present within the human body and it is through the work of love, our bodies are brought to a state of health
"our object is to try to maintain the proper kind of love and to attempt to cure the kind of love that is diseased."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Erximachus, endorses the idea of noble and vulgar love, sees love as present within the human body and it is through the work of love, our bodies are brought to a state of health
"it is the common, vulgar lover, who loves the body rather than the soul, the man whose love is bound to be inconstant, since what he loves is itself mutable and unstable."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Pausanias there is common love and heavenly love and common love is bad because it is directed toward love of the body. Heavenly love comes from a sense of maturity in the relationship
"those who are do not fall in love with little boys; they prefer older ones whose cheeks are showing the first traces of a beard- a sign that they have begun to form minds of their own."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Pausanias there is common love and heavenly love and common love is bad because it is directed toward love of the body. Heavenly love comes from a sense of maturity in the relationship
"the eager courage of love wins highest honors from the gods."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Phaedrus, honors pederastic love and argues that love instills a sense of shame, pride, sense of what is good
"I cannot say what greater good there is for a young boy than a gentile lover, or for a lover than a boy to love. There is a certain guidance a person needs for his whole life... nothing imparts this guidance as well as Love."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Phaedrus, honors pederastic love and argues that love instills a sense of shame, pride, sense of what is good,
"In my foolishness, I thought you should tell the truth about whatever you praise, that this should be your basis, and from this a speaker should select the most beautiful truths and arrange them most suitably."
Plato's Symposium, spoken by Socrate's to Agathon, Socrates accuses Agathon of giving a beautiful speech, but not speaking the truth and thus his speech fails
"the unexamined life is not worth living"
Plato's the Apology, Additionally, he believes making speeches about virtue is good for humans
"And if you do these things, we will have been treated justly by you, both I myself and my sons."
Plato's the Apology, He concludes with the claim that he bears no grudge against those who accused and condemned him, and asks them to look after his three sons as they grow up, ensuring that they put goodness before selfish interests.
"I have incurred much hatred, and among many men- know well that this is true. And this is what will convict me, if it does convict me."
Plato's the Apology, He urges the assembly to judge him justly, not in the way that Meletus has
"but that I do not believe in those that the city believes, but in others, and this is what you charge me with, that I believe in others. Or do you assert that I myself do not believe in the gods at all and that I teach this to others?"
Plato's the Apology, He uses Socratic Logic to highlight the inconsistency of Meletus' claim that he doesn't believe in the gods.
"And if I corrupt involuntarily, the law is not that you bring me in here for such involuntary wrongs, but that you take me aside in private to teach me and admonish me. For it is clear that if I learn, I will at least stop doing what I do involuntarily."
Plato's the Apology, Socrates argues that if did corrupt the youth, he was unaware because he believes that one never intentionally does wrong.
"I supposed that I should run the risk with the law rather than side with you because of the fear of prison or death when you were counseling unjust things."
Plato's the Apology, Socrates claims to be a law-abiding man, and in the case of Leon of Salamis from his past, he risked death by disobeying the authorities and siding with the law- this provides insight into his character based on his actions.
"if you suppose that by killing human beings you will prevent someone from reproaching you for not living correctly, you do not think nobly"
Plato's the Apology, Socrates final speech after his sentencing. 39d3-6.
"there is nothing bad for a good man, whether living or dead, and that the gods are not without care for his troubles"
Plato's the Apology, Socrates final speech after his sentencing. 41c9-d2. Living a virtuously guarantees that a person will have the gods on their side and they do not have to worry about the "bad" affecting them.
"really the god is wise, and that in this oracle he is saying that human wisdom is worth little or northing."
Plato's the Apology, Socrates first speech 23a5-7. Socrates speaking about his investigation of the oracle. Comes to the conclusion that humans truly know nothing and their knowledge is incomparable to the gods.
"Meletus does injustice, in that he jests in a serious matter, easily bringing human beings to trial, pretending to be serious and concerned about things for which he never cared at all."
Plato's the Apology, Socrates first speech 24c4-7. Socrates talking about how his accusers make a mockery of the legal system and charge him because of their personal feelings rather than a legitimate concern for the law.
"there he must stay and run the risk, as it seems to me, and not take into account death or anything else compared to what is shameful."
Plato's the Apology, Socrates first speech 28d8-10. The ultimate worry of people should be to live a virtuous life and they should be concerned with not being shameful rather than bodily, insignificant concerns like death.
"Not from money does virtue come, but from virtue comes money..."
Plato's the Apology, Socrates first speech 30b3-4. Main concern should be virtue rather than materialistic things.
"my whole care is to commit no unjust or impious deed"
Plato's the Apology, Socrates first speech 32d4. Only worry about honor and virtue rather than money or death
"What am I worthy to suffer or to pay because I did not keep quiet during my life and did not care for the things that the many do."
Plato's the Apology, Socrates speech after he is found guilty, arguing for his sentencing. 36b6-7. Socrates persecuted because his beliefs and teachings differ from the beliefs of the majority.
"What, then, is fitting for a poor man, a benefactor, who needs to have leisure to exhort you? There is nothing more fitting, men of Athens, than for such a man to be given his meals in Prytaneum"
Plato's the Apology, Socrates speech after he is found guilty, arguing for his sentencing. 36d4-7. Socrates believes he should be treated with the same care as the Olympian athletes because he gives more to society than they do.
"I much prefer to die having made my defense speech in this way than to live in that way."
Plato's the Apology, Socrates speech after he is found guilty, arguing for his sentencing. 38e5-7. Socrates would rather speak honestly and bluntly rather than lying and embellishing speech. Goes back to the theme of worrying about shame and virtue above everything else.
"I prefer to die having made my defense speech in this way than to live in that way."
Plato's the Apology, Socrates tells the jury that he knows that he could have begged for his life, but he knows that would have not been the just way to handle his defense
"For he has not sworn to gratify whoever seems favorable to him, but to give judgment according to the laws."
Plato's the Apology, Socrates tells the jury that they are required to do justice with their verdict as the law would see fit, not as they personally see fit
" 'I am wiser than this human being. For probably neither of us knows anything noble and good, but he supposes he knows something when he does not know, while I, just as I do not know, do not even suppose that I do. I am likely to be a little bit wiser than he is in this very thing: that whatever I do not know, I do not even suppose I know."
Plato's the Apology, Socrates' conclusion to his findings in an attempt to disprove the Oracle at Delphi
"they persuade these young men to leave off their associations with the latter, and to associate with themselves instead, and to give them money and acknowledge gratitude besides."
Plato's the Apology, Socrates' discussing the sophists and the way they teach
"The young who follow me of their own accord- those who have the most leisure, the sons of the wealthiest- enjoy hearing humans being examined."
Plato's the Apology, Socrates' is blamed for the actions of his students, but he says no proof he taught them
"Those, men of Athens, who have scattered this report about, are my dangerous accusers. For their listeners hold that investigators of these things also do not believe in the gods."
Plato's the Apology, addressing Socrates' first set of accusers
"and an attempt must be made in the short time to take away from you this slander, which you acquired over a long time."
Plato's the Apology, addressing Socrates' first set of accusers
"if you hear me speaking in my defense with the same speeches that I am accustomed to speak in both the marketplace at the money tables, where many of you have heard me, and else where, do not wonder or make a disturbance because of this."
Plato's the Apology, opening when Socrates is addressing the Athenian jury
"what you will hear will be spoken at random in the words that happen upon me."
Plato's the Apology, opening when Socrates is addressing the Athenian jury
" that lies apart and not beneath our rule/ and so the gods have said"
Virgil's The Aeneid, fatum spoken by amata. Story of roman origin
