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πάντες ἄνθρωποι τοῦ εἰδέναι ὀρέγονται φύσει.

All men by nature desire to know.

Metaphysica 980a

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θυμὸς δὲ κρείσσων τῶν ἐμῶν βουλευμάτων.

My passion is stronger than my plans.

Medea 1079

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Ἡροδότου Ἁλικαρνησσέος ἱστορίης ἀπόδεξις ἥδε.

This is the presentation of the inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassus.

Historiae 1.1

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μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος.

Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilles.

Ilias 1.1

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Ut pictura poesis.

Poetry is like a picture.

Ars Poetica 361

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ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

Apologia 38a

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Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.

There is no easy road from the earth to the stars.

Hercules Furens 437

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πολλὰ τὰ δεινὰ κοὐδὲν ἀνθρώπου δεινότερον πέλει.

Many are the wonders, and nothing is more wonderful than man.

Antigone 332

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Θουκυδίδης Ἀθηναῖος ξυνέγραψε τὸν πόλεμον τῶν Πελοποννησίων καὶ Ἀθηναίων.

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians.

Historiae 1.1

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Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris.

Arms and the man I sing, who first from the shores of Troy.

Aeneis 1.1