Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.
The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing… - Gilbert Murray
The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing…
- Gilbert Murray
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination… - Gilbert Murray
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination…
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history. - Gilbert Murray
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beat… - Gilbert Murray
A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beat…
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written… - Gilbert Murray
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written…
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionar… - Gilbert Murray
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionar…
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dan… - Gilbert Murray
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dan…
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never s… - Gilbert Murray
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never s…
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. - Gilbert Murray
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
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