"Only if you repent will God show you grace — that would strike a Greek as ridiculous and annoying. He would say: "Maybe slaves feel that way."
„Nur wenn du bereuest, ist Gott dir gnädig“ — das ist einem Griechen ein Gelächter und ein Aergerniss: er würde sagen „so mögen Sclaven empfinden“.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Friday, August 02, 2024
Repentance
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft), Book III, § 135 (tr. Walter Kaufmann):