Now I live in hope, but the end is in the hands of gods.

νῦν δ᾽ ἔλπομαι μέν, ἐν θεῷ γε μὰν τέλος:

Pindar

Olympian Odes

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God is in control

Author

Pindar

Source

Olympian Odes

Medium

Poem

Language

Greek

Time

464 BC 460s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Poet

From

Greece Europe Ancient Greece

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Original Citation

Pindar. Olympian Odes. c. 464 BC.

Current Citation

Pindar. The Complete Odes, translated by Anthony Verity. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Xenophanes. Fragments. 5th century BC, DK21 B15.

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God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st John 1:5).

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It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Socrates

Quoted in Crito, by Plato

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Eye for an eye Retaliation Revenge Justice
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Socrates

Author

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Source
Crito
Medium
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Statement Type
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Time
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Plato. Crito. 399 BCE.

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Plato. "Crito." Plato: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo, translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones and William Preddy. Harvard University Press, 2017.