Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 1331–1332 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
Τὸ μὲν εὖ πράσσειν ἀκόρεστον ἔφυ πᾶσι βροτοῖσιν.
“While from inward health doth flow,
Beloved of all, true bliss which mortals seek.”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 535–537 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
Source: Book 3, Chapter 6 “The God Feasters” (p. 139), Corum, The Knight of the Swords (1971)
“In this life we never behold the true state of our interior”
On the Last Day
Context: In this life we never behold the true state of our interior: our attention is engaged by the few serious sentiments with which we are occasionally animated; and the judgment which we form of ourselves is generally influenced by the last impressions which are made upon our minds.
Source: The Path of the King (1921), Ch. XIV "The End of the Road", II
Source: The Persians (472 BC), lines 818–820 (tr. S. G. Benardete)
The Battle Field
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
“Its fury aims to shatter but our altars:
It scorns only the gods and never the mortals.”
Sa fureur ne va qu'à briser nos autels,
Elle n'en veut qu'aux dieux, et non pas aux mortels.
Stratonice, act I, scene iii
Referring to the early Christian church.
Polyeucte (1642)
Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 20, 1891)
Letters
Stanza 1
Source: The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712)
Ein' feste burg is unser Gott,
ein gute wehr und waffen.
Er hilft uns frei aus aller not,
die uns itzt hat betroffen.
Psalm. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (1529), translated by Frederic H. Hedge, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Literal Translation: A firm fortress is our God,
a good defense and weapon.
He frees us from all need,
that has struck us.
Complete hymn, Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Book translation, at Wikisource
