Quote for the Day #6: Pseudo-Phocylides
03/29/2006 16:39 Filed in: Miscellaneous
Below is part of the text we read for NT Colloquium today:
Do not hide a different thought in your heart while uttering another.
Change not yourself according to the spot, like a polyp that clings to the rock.
Be sincere to all, speak what is from your soul.
Whoever wrongs willfully is a bad man; but if he does so under compulsion,
I shall not pass sentence, for it is each man's intention that is examined.
Do not pride yourself on wisdom nor on strength nor on riches.
The only God is wise and mighty and at the same time rich in blessings.
Do not afflict your heart with bygone evils;
for what has been done can no more be undone.
--The Sentences of Pseudo-Phcylides, lines 48-56, written perhaps somewhere between 30 BC and AD 40.
Do not hide a different thought in your heart while uttering another.
Change not yourself according to the spot, like a polyp that clings to the rock.
Be sincere to all, speak what is from your soul.
Whoever wrongs willfully is a bad man; but if he does so under compulsion,
I shall not pass sentence, for it is each man's intention that is examined.
Do not pride yourself on wisdom nor on strength nor on riches.
The only God is wise and mighty and at the same time rich in blessings.
Do not afflict your heart with bygone evils;
for what has been done can no more be undone.
--The Sentences of Pseudo-Phcylides, lines 48-56, written perhaps somewhere between 30 BC and AD 40.