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2 results for "renaissance"

1. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 6.8 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •renaissance dialogue traditions Found in books: KÃ¶nig, Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (2012) 45

6.8. He used to recommend the Athenians to vote that asses are horses. When they deemed this absurd, his reply was, But yet generals are found among you who had had no training, but were merely elected. Many men praise you, said one. Why, what wrong have I done? was his rejoinder. When he turned the torn part of his cloak so that it came into view, Socrates no sooner saw this than he said, I spy your love of fame peeping through your cloak. Phanias in his work on the Socratics tells us how some one asked him what he must do to be good and noble, and he replied, You must learn from those who know that the faults you have are to be avoided. When some one extolled luxury his reply was, May the sons of your enemies live in luxury.

2. Anon., Acts of James The Less, 1 Tagged with subjects: •renaissance dialogue traditions Found in books: KÃ¶nig, Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture (2012) 45

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