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Βίων δύο ἔλεγε διδασκαλίας εἶναι θανάτου, τόν τε πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὕπνον –> Bion used to say that we have two teachers for death: the time before we were born and sleep | Bion said that there are two rehearsals for death: the time before being born and sleep

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Ἀναξαγόρας δύο ἔλεγε διδασκαλίας εἶναι θανάτου, τόν τε πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὕπνον –> Anaxagoras used to say that we have two teachers for death: the time before we were born and sleep | Anaxagoras said that there are two rehearsals for death: the time before being born and sleep

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τὸ μὴ γενέσθαι κρεῖσσον ἢ φῦναι βροτοῖς → not existing is better for mortals than being born, not to be born is better than life for mortals

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τὸν θάνατον τί φοβεῖσθε, τὸν ἡσυχίης γενετῆρα, τὸν παύοντα νόσους καὶ πενίης ὀδύνας –> why fear ye death, the parent of repose, who numbs the sense of penury and pain

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οὐ δικαίως θάνατον ἔχθουσιν βροτοί, ὅσπερ μέγιστον ῥῦμα τῶν πολλῶν κακῶν –> unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills | men are not right in hating death, which is the greatest succour from our many ills

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κακῶν ἀπέστω θάνατος, ὡς ἴδῃ κακά –> of all evils let only death be absent, so he may see evils

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ὦ θάνατε, σωφρόνισμα τῶν ἀγνωμόνων –> o death, chastener of the foolish | ο death, warning to the arrogant

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κάλλιστον τὸ δικαιότατον, λῷστον δ' ὑγιαίνειν –> nothing is more beautiful than being just, but nothing is more pleasant than being healthy | Most beautiful is what is most just; the best thing is to be healthy.

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ὡς τρὶς ἂν παρ' ἀσπίδα στῆναι θέλοιμ' ἂν μᾶλλον ἢ τεκεῖν ἅπαξ → I would rather stand three times with a shield in battle than give birth once

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ἐν ξηρῷ → in a dry manner, drily, in the dry

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οὐκ ἔστιν ὧδε ἀλλὰ ἠγέρθη → He is not here, but is risen | He is not here but has risen | He is not here, but He has risen | He is not here; He has risen!

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ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω μία καὶ ὡυτή → the road up and the road down is one and the same, the upward path and the downward path are the same

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οὐχ εὕδει ποιμήν → the shepherd does not sleep, the shepherd lies awake, the shepherd is ever vigilant

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τὸ δ' ἡδέως ζῆν καὶ ἱλαρῶς οὐκ ἔξωθέν ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον ὁ ἄνθρωπος τοῖς περὶ αὑτὸν πράγμασιν ἡδονὴν καὶ χάριν ὥσπερ ἐκ πηγῆς τοῦ ἤθους προστίθησιν –> but a pleasant and happy life comes not from external things, but, on the contrary, man draws on his own character as a source from which to add the element of pleasure and joy to the things which surround him

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οἱ βάρβαροι τῇ ἀλήκτῳ συνουσίᾳ ὑπνώθησαν –> the barbarians, exhausted by unremitting intercourse, fell asleep

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εὐνάζειν ἀδακρύτων βλεφάρων πόθον → lull the desire of her eyes so that they weep no more

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ἀγεωμέτρητος μηδεὶς εἰσίτω → no one ignorant of geometry may enter, let no one ignorant of geometry enter, let no one ignorant of geometry come in

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πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει καὶ δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης –> all things move and nothing remains still, and you cannot step twice into the same stream

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πένης ὢν τὴν γυναῖκα χρήματα λαβὼν ἔχει δέσποιναν, οὐ γυναῖκ' ἔτι –> a poor man getting rich turns his wife into his boss, not his wife any more

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γυμνὸς ὡς ἐκ μήτρας → in one's birthday suit, in the altogether, in Adam's suit, completely naked, as naked as the day he was born, naked as the day he was born, as naked as one was born, as naked as when one came into the world, as naked as one came into the world, starkers, butt naked

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