κενό

Τίποτα δεν υπάρχει εκτός από τα άτομα και το κενό ανάμεσά τους.

Όλα τα υπόλοιπα είναι η γνώμη.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space.

Everything else is opinion

Δημόκριτος

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Πάσχα

Páscoa

Pintura de Francisco de Zurbarán

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Ἰδοὺ ὁ ἄνθρωπος

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, 

yet he opened not his mouth: 

he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, 

and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, 

so he opened not his mouth.

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Ele foi oprimido e afligido, 

mas não abriu a boca; 

como um cordeiro que é levado ao matadouro, 

e como a ovelha que é muda perante os seus tosquiadores, 

assim ele não abriu a boca.

 Oblatus est quia ipse voluit, 

et non aperuit os suum; 

sicut ovis ad occisionem ducetur, 

et quasi agnus coram tondente se obmutescet, 

et non aperiet os suum.

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καὶ αὐτὸς διὰ τὸ κεκακῶσθαι οὐκ ἀνοίγει τὸ στόμα ὡς πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἤχθη καὶ ὡς ἀμνὸς ἐναντίον τοῦ κείροντος αὐτὸν ἄφωνος οὕτως οὐκ ἀνοίγει τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ

Albrecht Dürer
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Μακαριότητα

 Ὧν ἡ σοφία παρασκευάζεται εἰς τὴν τοῦ ὅλου βίου μακαριότητα πολὺ μέγιστόν ἐστιν ἡ τῆς φιλίας κτῆσις.

Of the things that wisdom provides 

for the complete happiness of one's entire life, 

by far the greatest is friendship.

Epicurus

Ἐπίκουρος

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Κέρκωπες

Mentirosos e trapaceiros 
versáteis em acções danosas.

Viajam pelo mundo 
enganando os homens.

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Liars and cheats, skilled in deeds irremediable, 
accomplished knaves. 
Far over the world they roamed 
deceiving men as they wandered continually.

Κέρκωπες Cercopes

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Χαζός

τὸν δ' οὔτ' ἂρ σκαπτῆρα θεοὶ θέσαν οὔτ' ἀροτῆρα
οὔτ' ἄλλως τι σοφόν· πάσης δ' ἡμάρτανε τέχνης.

 

Os deuses não lhe tinham ensinado a cavar ou lavrar,

ou qualquer outra arte;

falhou em todas.

 

 

Homero ? Hesíodo ? Pigres ? Aristóteles ?

Dedicado aos nossos Margites...

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Ἐπάμεροι

ἐπάμεροι: τί δέ τις; τί δ᾽ οὔ τις; 

σκιᾶς ὄναρ
ἄνθρωπος.

Creatures of a day! What is a man?
What is he not? A dream of a shadow

Píndaro

Πίνδαρος

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ραγισμένο γιαλί

Το ραγισμένο γιαλί δεν σιάχτεται
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The cracked glass cannot be fixed

photo by Super Star Stock

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στεγάσαι φρενὸς ἔλλοπος εἴσω

οὐδέ τι τοῦ παντὸς κενεὸν πέλει οὐδὲ περισσόν

The All hath neither Void nor Overflow
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Empédocles
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Ἐμπεδοκλῆς

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Νοῦς

τὰ μὲν ἄλλα παντὸς μοῖραν μετέχει͵ 

νοῦς δέ ἐστιν ἄπειρον καὶ αὐτοκρατὲς καὶ μέμεικται οὐδενὶ χρήματι͵ 

ἀλλὰ μόνος αὐτὸς ἐπ΄ ἐωυτοῦ ἐστιν.

All other things partake in a portion of everything, 

while Nous is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing, 

but is alone, 

itself by itself.
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Anaxágoras 

Ἀναξαγόρας

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Ἡράκλειτος

Ποταμοῖσι τοῖσι αὐτοῖσι ἐμβαίνομέν τε καὶ οὐκ ἐμβαίνομεν, 

εἶμέν τε καὶ οὐκ εἶμεν.

Into the same river we both step and do not step. 

We both are and are not.

Heraclitus

Ἡράκλειτος

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