“A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.”
Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) Swedish poet, professor and bishop
Canto VIII.
Fridthjof's Saga (1820-1825)
“The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 5, "Sea Dreams"
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Mencius (-372–-289 BC) Chinese philosopher
Book 1, part 1, as translated by James Legge in The Life and Works of Mencius (1875), p. 124<!--. Variant translation:
Once [Mencius] visited a king, and the king asked him, "Old teacher, how can my country profit from your presence?" Mencius immediately replied, "Why do you speak of profit, sire? Isn't there also the sense of mercy and the sense of right?"
As translated by Lin Yutang in From Pagan to Christian (1959), p. 90-->
The Mencius
Context: Mencius went to see King Huei of Liang. The king said, "Venerable sir, since you have not counted it far to come here, a distance of a thousand li, may I presume that you are provided with counsels to profit my kingdom?" Mencius replied, "Why must your Majesty use that word 'profit'? What I am provided with, are counsels to benevolence and righteousness, and these are my only topics."
“The dead are specters of the living, but the living are specters of the dead.”
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XIV - The Ruins
Context: I am not in pain. I am extraordinarily calm; I am drunk with tranquillity. Are they dead, all — those? I do not know. The dead are specters of the living, but the living are specters of the dead. Something warm is licking my hand. The black mass which overhangs me is trembling. It is a foundered horse, whose great body is emptying itself, whose blood is flowing like poor touches of a tongue on to my hand.
“Honor is for the living. Dead is dead.”
Drew Karpyshyn book Star Wars: Darth Bane: Path of Destruction
Source: Path of Destruction
Aeschylus (-525–-456 BC) ancient Athenian playwright
Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 683–685 (tr. Anna Swanwick)
“The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.”
Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood
Source: Norwegian Wood
