Mt 5, 29-30

Mas já chega de diatribe contra Báias; contra os vícios, porém, nunca ela será excessiva. Contra estes, Lucílio, peço-te que movas uma guerra sem quartel. Os vícios também não teriam mercê contigo. Repele todas as paixões que te dilaceram o coração; se outra maneira não houver de as arrancar, melhor seria que, juntamente com elas, arrancasses também o teu coração! Combate sobretudo os prazeres, trata-os como os teus piores inimigos. Tal como os ladrões a quem os egípcios chamam φιλήτας, eles só nos abraçam para melhor nos estrangularem.

Séneca, Cartas a Lucílio V.51.13

Gulbenkian, Lisboa: 2009. (trad.: J. A. Segurado e Campos)

[Sed satis diu cum Bais litigavimus, numquam satis cum vitiis, quae, oro te, Lucili, persequere sine modo, sine fine; nam illis quoque nec finis est nec modus. Proice quaecumque cor tuum laniant, quae si aliter extrahi nequirent, cor ipsum cum illis reveliendum erat. Voluptates praecipue exturba et invisissimas habe: latronum more, quos 'philêtas' Aegyptii vocant, in hoc nos amplectuntur, ut strangulent. Vale.]

Pound escreve a Harriet Monroe em Outubro

I've had luck again, and am sending you some modern stuff by an American. I say modern, for it is in the laconic speech of the Imagistes, even if the subject is classic... This the sort of American stuff that I can show here and in Paris without its being ridiculed. Objective - no slither; direct - no excessive use of adjectives, no metaphors that won't permit examination. It's straight talk, straight as the Greek!

Londres, Outubro de 1912

Sobre o Valor das Palavras

A palavra é a sombra do acto.

λόγος γὰρ ἔργου σκιή.

Demócrito DK B145 (= Graham Dmc 398 [F267]) 

The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, Cambridge: 2010.

Lc 17, 10

Men remember people's mistakes more readily than their good deeds, and this is appropriate. For just as there is no need to praise one who returns a deposit, but to accuse and punish one who does not, so with the ruler: he was elected not so he could do wrong but so he could do right.

Demócrito DK B265 (= Graham Dmc 374 [F243]) 

The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, Cambridge: 2010 (trad.: Daniel Graham).

Filosofia Política Clássica vs Moderna VI

fotograma de Barry Lyndon (1975), de Kubrick

It seems proper to me to act towards men as it is written we should act towards hostile beasts and creeping things: it is legal by tradition to kill an enemy in every society in which the laws do not prohibit it; but rites, treaties, and oaths peculiar to each place may prohibit it.

One who kills any highwayman or robber should be immune from punishment, whether he does it by his own hand, by giving an order, or by vote.

κιξάλλην καὶ ληιστὴν πάντα κτείνων τις ἀθῶιος ἂν εἴη καὶ αὐτοχειρίηι καὶ κελεύων καὶ ψήφωι.

Demócrito DK 259 e 260 (= Graham Dmc 368 e 367 [F237 e 238]) 

The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, Cambridge: 2010 (trad.: Daniel Graham).

And thus it is that every man in the state of Nature has a power to kill a murderer, both to deter others from doing the like injury (which no reparation can compensate) by the example of the punishment that attends it from everybody, and also to secure men from the attempts of a criminal who, having renounced reason, the common rule and measure God hath given to mankind, hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or a tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security.

John Locke, Segundo Tratado do Governo Civil II.11

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De Amicitia

Para o Miguel

In a fish shared with another there are no bones.

ἐν γὰρ ξυνῷ ἰχθύι ἄκανθαι οὐκ ἔνεισιν.

Demócrito DK B151 (= Graham Dmc 312 [F181]) 

The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, Cambridge: 2010 (trad.: Daniel Graham).

De Antígona ao Homem Sem Qualidades

Talia Dixit 6

Talia dixit es un revista científica en formato electrónico y con una periodicidad anual. Tiene como objetivo dar a conocer trabajos de investigación centrados de manera prioritaria en el análisis de las relaciones que, desde la Antigüedad hasta el Renacimiento, se han producido entre retórica e historiografía. De hecho, lo que en la Antigüedad se denominaba “género historiográfico” es el resultado de una fecunda interrelación entre el deseo de estudiar los hechos del pasado y el influjo ejercido por la educación retórica y literaria de cada momento.

O número 6 foi agora disponibilizado online no final do mês passado.

Os Garamantes

The late Muammar Gaddafi was fond of insisting on the links between his republic and sub-Saharan Africa. He was less interested, however, in celebrating the black African civilisation that flourished for more than 1,500 years within what are now Libya's borders, and that was barely acknowledged in the Gaddafi-era curriculum. Now, however, researchers into the Garamantes – a "lost" Saharan civilisation that flourished long before the Islamic era – are hoping that Libya's new government can restore the warrior culture, mentioned by Herodotus in his Histories, to its rightful place in Libya's history. For while the impressive Roman ruins at Sabratha and Leptis Magna – both world heritage sites – are rightly famous, Libya's other cultural heritage, one that coexisted with its Roman settlers, has been largely forgotten. It has been prompted by new research – including through the use of satellite imaging – which suggests that the Garamantes built more extensively and spread their culture more widely than previously thought. The research has confirmed the view of Herodotus –not always the most reliable of chroniclers of his world, often supplying a good yarn when hard facts were hard to come by – that the Garmantes were a "very great nation".

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