“That action which is likely to make one repent later is not good action at all.” “Those who do not speak righteously are not virtuous people.” Fourthly, he should guard himself against vulnerabilities.” Thirdly, he should try to keep on doing his duties. Secondly, he should not be disheartened even when there occurs a potentially fatal incident. “Firstly, a man should not be infatuated with his acquired glory. It is not good for a wise man to be given to anger.” It is not good for a sovereign to act without forethought. It is not good for a monk not to be self-restrained. “It is not good for a householder, a secular, to be lazy. Non-violence towards all being confers nobility on man.” One’s own one hides like a crafty gambler his losing die.” “There never was and will never be one who is totally blamed or praised.” It is impossible to make them all think alike.” The result of evil thoughts will be unpleasant circumstances and suffering.” On the other hand, if his thoughts are bad, the words and deeds will be bad. Happiness will always follow him like his shadow that never leaves him. This happiness never leaves the person whose thoughts are good. The result of good thoughts, words, and deeds will be happiness. If his thoughts are good, the words and deeds will also be good. “All that man experiences springs out of his thoughts. Ὅτι πᾶσαν ἀρετὴν ἀποφαίνει διδακτήν.Thailand Foundation would like to present you with some Buddhist aphorisms, quoted in The Nectar of Truth and The Dhammapada, hoping that they will instruct your day: Thus Homer was therefore first to philosophize concerning ethical and natural affairs.” From these lines he asserts clearly that every kind of virtue is teachable. “For life is sustained by means of actions and words, and he says that he was made a teacher of the young man about both. In the Pseudo-Plutarchean Life of Homer, these lines are used to assert (1) that virtue is teachable and (2) that Homer was the first philosopher (Ps-Plutarch Vita Homeri 1736-1739): “It is not possible for the overseer to contend for a prize when others are competing and the one who trains the youths in common affairs and public contexts prepares them for their country: “To be speakers of speeches and doers of deeds”, which is useful in no small or minor part for a government: for this reason first and foremost, Lykourgos exerted himself to make sure that the youths obeyed every elder as if he were a law-giver.” He uses it almost in passing in discussing whether or not the elderly should rule the state:Īn seni respublica gerenda sit, Plutarch, 795e5-796a7 This passage is popular in later antiquity as well, where Plutarch cites it several times. How to be a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.” He sent me for this reason: to teach you all these things, Or assemblies where men become most prominent. Still a child, not yet educated in the ways of crushing war On that day when he sent you from Phthia with Agamemnon “How could I be left here without you, dear child,Īlone? The old man and horse-trainer Peleus assigned me to you Part of his sorrow, it seems, resides in the fact that he has work still to do (437-443): In his speech to Achilles in Ili ad 9, Phoinix laments the idea that he may be separated from Achilles.
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