Who knows but life be that which men call death, and death what men call life?

Euripides

Phrixus

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Life and death

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Euripides

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Phrixus

Language

Greek

Time

400 BC 400s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Playwright Writer

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Greece Europe Ancient Greece

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Citation

Euripides. Phrixus. 5th century BC, fragment 830.

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Every man dies, not every man really lives.

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Living life to the fullest Life and death
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Braveheart
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In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.

Psalm 120:1

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Psalms The Bible
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Time
450 BC 450s BC 5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Psalm 120:1).

Another quote from Classical antiquity

This only is denied even to God,
The power to make what has been done undone.

Agathon

Quoted in The Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle

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God's power God Changing the past The past
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Agathon

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Aristotle
Source
The Nicomachean Ethics
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Greek
Time
350 BC 350s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Agathon. Quoted in Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia [Nicomachean Ethics], written by Aristotle. c. 350 BC, bk. 6.

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Agathon. Quoted in Nicomachean Ethics, written by Aristotle, translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing Company, 2019, bk. 7, ch. 2.

Another quote originally in Greek

Make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics

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War and peace War Peace

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Aristotle
Source
The Nicomachean Ethics
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
Greek
Time
322 BC 320s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Aristotle. Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia [Nicomachean Ethics]. c. 322 BC.

Current Citation

Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics, translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing, 2019.