Between us and excellence, the gods have placed the sweat of our brows.

τῆς δ᾽ ἀρετῆς ἱδρῶτα θεοὶ προπάροιθεν ἔθηκαν ἀθάνατοι.

Hesiod

Works and Days

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Topic

Hard work Excellence Character Virtue The human condition

Author

Hesiod

Source

Works and Days

Medium

Poem

Genre

Didactic poem

Language

Greek

Time

700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Turkey Europe Ancient Greece

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Original Citation

Hesiod. Works and Days. c. 700 BC, l. 289.

Current Citation

Hesiod. "Works and Days." Theogony and Works and Days. Translated by M. L. West. Oxford UP, 2009, l. 289.

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There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

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Henry Fielding
Source
Tom Jones
Medium
Novel
Genre
Coming of age story Picaresque
Language
English
Time
1749 1740s 18th century
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Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. Vol. 4, London: A. Millar, 1749, bk. 15, ch. 1

Current Citation

Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, edited by Alice Wakely, Penguin, 2005.

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Of all the creatures that breathe and move across the earth, there is nothing feebler than man.

Homer

The Odyssey

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Human frailty Nature of man

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Homer
Source
The Odyssey
Medium
Poem
Genre
Epic poem
Language
Greek
Time
700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Homer. The Odyssey. 710 BC, bk. 18, l. 130.

Current Citation

Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by Robert Fagels. Penguin, 1999, bk. 18, l. 130.

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Give me chastity and continency—but not yet!

St. Augustine

Confessions

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Chastity Sexual morality Self-control Sex

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St. Augustine
Source
Confessions
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
Latin
Time
398 390s 4th century
Era
Classical antiquity
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St. Augustine of Hippo. Confessions and Enchiridion. c. 398, bk. 8, ch. 7.

Current Citation

St. Augustine of Hippo. Confessions. Translated by Henry Chadwick. Oxford UP, 2009, bk. 8, ch. 7.

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He is risen.

Angel

Mark 16:6

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Jesus's resurrection
Speaker
Angel
Source
Gospel of Mark The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Language
Greek
Time
60 60s 1st century
Era
Classical antiquity
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Mark 16:6).