Search results for Ancient Greek maxim (associated with Socrates and Plato)

Ah, how hard it is to describe this rough and harsh and dense forest, which renews fear in my thoughts!

Dante Alighieri

And as the starlings are borne on their wings, in the cold season, in a broad and full troop, so does that blast bear the evil spirits along.

Dante Alighieri

And I: 'Master, what is so heavy that it makes them lament so strongly?'.

Dante Alighieri

He had already reached the place where the roar of water falling into the next circle could be heard, similar to the buzzing of beehives.

Dante Alighieri

There the dreadful Erichtho writhed, who summoned back the shadows to their bodies.

Dante Alighieri

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

Sun Tzu

You will taste how salty another's bread is, and how hard it is to tread another's stairs up and down.

Dante Alighieri

Beyond the sphere that widest orbit swings, passes the sigh that leaves my heart below.

Francesco Petrarca

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Jesus Christ

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare