Friday, April 25, 2014
No Pleasure Without Pain
Pindar, fragment 225 (tr. William H. Race):
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whenever a god sends joy to a man,
he first strikes his heart with gloom
ὁπόταν θεὸς ἀνδρὶ χάρμα πέμψῃ,
πάρος μέλαιναν καρδίαν ἐστυφέλιξεν
