The happiest life consists in ignorance.

ἐν τῷ φρονεῖν γὰρ μηδὲν ἥδιστος βίος.

Sophocles

Ajax

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Ignorance is bliss Ignorance Happiness

Speaker

Ajax

Author

Sophocles

Source

Ajax

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragic play Greek theater

Language

Greek

Time

442 BC 440s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Greece Europe Ancient Greece

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Original Citation

Sophocles. Αἴας [Ajax]. c. 441 BCE, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Sophocles. "Ajax." Electra and Other Plays, translated by David Raeburn. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Walter Benjamin

One Way Street

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Self-knowledge Happiness

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Walter Benjamin
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One Way Street
Language
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Time
1979 1970s 20th century
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Benjamin, Walter. Einbahnstraße [One Way Street]. Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1928.

Current Citation

Benjamin, Walter. One-Way Street, translated by Edmund Jephcott, edited by Michael W. Jennings. Belknap Press, 2016.

Another quote from the 5th century BC

In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.

Psalm 120:1

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God's comfort Prayer
Source
Psalms The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Language
Hebrew
Time
450 BC 450s BC 5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Psalm 120:1).

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And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

Genesis 2:16-17

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Source
Genesis The Bible
Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
Hebrew
Time
1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC
Era
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Citation

The Holy Bible: New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Genesis 2:16-17).

Another quote originally in Greek

One soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius

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Aristotle

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Diogenes Laërtius
Source
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Genre
Biography Historical literature
Language
Greek
Time
3rd century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Aristotle. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 5, ch. 1, sect. 20.

Current Citation

Aristotle. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 5, ch. 1, sect. 20.