
Bion, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy
Prometheus
Poems (1851), Prometheus
Bion, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 4: The Academy
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 108.
Source: The Other Side Of The Coin (2008), Chapter 5, Male Versus Female, p. 160
“Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.”
Adeo nihil est miserum nisi cum putes, contraque beata sors omnis est aequanimitate tolerantis.
Prose IV, line 18
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II
Ghazal, The Tears of Khorassan
Source: The Tears of Khorassan, translated by William Kirkpatrick, quoted in A Literary History of Persia, 1908