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What act of political courage have these people ever performed and who expects anything laudable from them?

quod enim umquam eorum in re publica forte factum exstitit? aut quis ab iis ullam rem laude dignam desiderat?
(Cic. Att. 164=8.14; trans. Shackleton Bailey)

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November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Those who give straight judgements to foreigners and their own people,
who do not deviate at all from what is right,
their city flourishes and the people there flower;

οἳ δὲ δίκας ξείνοισι καὶ ἐνδήμοισι διδοῦσιν
ἰθείας καὶ μή τι παρεκβαίνουσι δικαίου,
τοῖσι τέθηλε πόλις, λαοὶ δ᾽ ἀνθέουσιν ἐν αὐτῇ·
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Not without distress can I consider how our great failures and faults have brought us hither.

id quantis nostris peccatis vitiisque venerit non possum sine molestia cogitare.
(Cic. Att.163/VIII.13)

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November 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Apes together strong!

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Solidarity Forever (Babrius 47)
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November 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
For where your treasure is, there also shall be your heart.

ὅπου γάρ ἐστιν ὁ θησαυρός σου, ἐκεῖ ἔσται καὶ ἡ καρδία σου.

(Matt. 6:21)

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November 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Do you think that crimes spring up to the gods on wings, and then someone writes them down in Zeus’ notebook, and then Zeus looks into it and brings justice to men?

δοκεῖτε πηδᾶν τἀδικήματ᾿ εἰς θεοὺς
πτεροῖσι, κἄπειτ᾿ ἐν Διὸς δέλτου πτυχαῖς
γράφειν τιν᾿ αὐτά, Ζῆνα δ᾿ εἰσορῶντά νιν
θνητοῖς δικάζειν;
November 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Thus, since you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I intend to vomit you from my mouth.

οὕτως, ὅτι χλιαρὸς εἶ καὶ οὔτε ζεστὸς οὔτε ψυχρός, μέλλω σε ἐμέσαι ἐκ τοῦ στόματός μου.
(Rev. 3.16)
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No one likes a centrist, we suppose.
October 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"Φιλαδελφία μέγιστον ἀγαθὸν ἀνθρώποις..."

It's the cheesesteaks.
October 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Where it is not possible to say freely what is best,
and the worse wins out in the city,
errors lay low salvation.

ὅπου δὲ μὴ τἄριστ᾿ ἐλευθέρως λέγειν
ἔξεστι, νικᾷ δ᾿ ἐν πόλει τὰ χείρονα,
ἁμαρτίαι σφάλλουσι τὴν σωτηρίαν.
(Soph. fr. 201b;Stob 4.1.7)
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October 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
In the end, justice always arrives.

πάντως ὕστερον ἦλθε δίκη.

(Solon, fr. 13.8, ed. West)
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October 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
To be a dear citizen, deserving well of the republic, praised, cherished, esteemed - that is glorious. In truth, to be feared and hated is odious, abominable, a position of weakness, tottering on the edge of ruin.
October 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
“Will you not stop quoting laws to us who wear swords?” he (i.e. Pompey) asked.

“Οὐ παύσεσθε,” εἶπεν, “ἡμῖν ὑπεζωσμένοις ξίφη νόμους ἀναγινώσκοντες;”
(Plut. Pomp. 10)

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October 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Each may say what he'd like; none is compelled to believe it.

Licet quod cuique libet loquatur, credere non est necesse.
(Cic. Phil. 1.33)

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October 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Aesop says: "Don't fight to the death while the carrion birds circle."

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The Lion and the Wild Boar (Perry 338; Chambry 203)
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October 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Do not kick against the pricks with your naked feet:
since you won’t harm them in any way
by wounding yourself and causing your own grief.

St. Kassiani

Πρὸς κέντρα μὴ λάκτιζε γυμνοῖς ποσί σου·
ἐπεὶ τὰ κέντρα μηδαμῶς καταβλάψας
σαυτὸν τρώσειας καὶ πόνον ὑποστήσῃ.

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September 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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“No one loves their homeland because it is great. They love it because it is their own.”

Nemo enim patriam quia magna est amat, sed quia sua. #Seneca
September 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
And you shall cry out on that day because of that person, your king, whom you chose for yourselves, and the Lord will not hear you in those days, since you chose for yourselves a king.

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September 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Look, we don't know what a cow would do with a quarter-share of a stag, but we do know: "Numquam est fidelis cum potente societas."
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The Cow, the She-Goat, the Sheep, and the Lion (Phaed. 1.5)
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September 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“Virtue relies wholly on its use.”

“virtus in usu sui tota posita est”
(Cic. Rep. 1.2)

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September 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
“Cicero, what is there for you in a stranger's generation? Our age is now finished.”

“Cicero, quid in alieno saeculo tibi? iam nostra peracta sunt.” (Sen. Suas. 6.1)

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September 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Babrius is right: the union makes us strong!

Happy Labor Day!

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Divided and Devoured (Babrius 44)
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September 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
For wretched infatuation, sire of calamity, plotting disgraces, emboldens mortals.

βροτοὺς θρασύνει γὰρ αἰσχρόμητις
τάλαινα παρακοπὰ πρωτοπήμων.
(Aesch. Ag. 222f)

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August 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
In place of sleep, there drips before the heart the pain of misery recalled: even upon the unwilling comes a measured mind.

στάζει δ᾿ ἀνθ᾿ ὕπνου πρὸ καρδίας
μνησιπήμων πόνος· καὶ παρ᾿ ἅ-
κοντας ἦλθε σωφρονεῖν.
(Aesch. Ag. 179-181)

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August 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“Nothing is beyond hope, and one must hope for everything.”

“ἄελπτον οὐδέν, πάντα δ᾿ ἐλπίζειν χρεών.”

(Euripides “Hypsipyle”, fr. 761 = Stob. 4.46.16)
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August 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“For evil men, profit is greater than justice.”

“κακοῖς τὸ κέρδος τῆς δίκης ὑπέρτερον.”

(Euripides “Hypsipyle” fr. 760a = 758 Nauck/Stob. 3.10.26)
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August 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM