Things are not always what they seem.

Non semper ea sunt quae videntur.

Phaedrus

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Topic

Looks are deceiving Appearance vs. reality

Author

Phaedrus

Source

Fables

Medium

Fable and fairy tale

Language

Latin

Time

50 50s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Writer

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Greece Europe

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Original Citation

Phaedrus. Fables. c. 50 AD, bk. 4, fable 2.

Current Citation

Phaedrus and Babrius. Fables, translated by Ben Edwin Perry. Harvard University Press, 1965, bk. 4, fable 2.

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I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

William Shakespeare

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Wolf in sheep's clothing Looks are deceiving Appearance vs. reality

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William Shakespeare
Source
Sonnet 147 Shakespeare's Sonnets
Medium
Sonnet Poem
Language
English
Time
1609 1600s 17th century
Era
European Renaissance
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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 147, I. 13.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 147.

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I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Ecclesiastes 9:11

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Randomness Timing The human condition
Source
Ecclesiastes The Bible
Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Hebrew
Time
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Era
Classical antiquity
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 9:11).

Another quote originally in Latin

Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Newton's laws of motion Laws of physics

Author

Isaac Newton
Source
Principia
Genre
Scientific literature
Language
Latin
Time
1687 1680s 17th century
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Original Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 1.

Current Citation

Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 1.