Friday, April 25, 2014

 

No Pleasure Without Pain

Pindar, fragment 225 (tr. William H. Race):
whenever a god sends joy to a man,
he first strikes his heart with gloom

ὁπόταν θεὸς ἀνδρὶ χάρμα πέμψῃ,
πάρος μέλαιναν καρδίαν ἐστυφέλιξεν



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