Aesop's Fables
Aesop, -600
Ατμόσφαιρα: χιούμορ, τρυφερότητα και μελαγχολία. Μιλά για την ηθική, την εξουσία και την ταυτότητα.
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Jupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts, and offered a prize to the one who, in his judgment, produced the most beautiful offspring. Among the rest came the Monkey, carrying a baby monkey in her arms, a hairless, flat-nosed little fright. When they saw it, the gods all burst into peal on peal of laughter; but the Monkey hugged her little one to her, and said, “Jupiter may give the prize to whomsoever he likes: but I shall always think my baby the most beautiful of them all.” A Hound who had served his master well for years, and had run down many a quarry in his time, began to lose his strength and speed owing to age. One day, when out hunting, his master started a powerful wild boar and set the Hound at him. The latter seized the beast by the ear, but his teeth were gone and he could not retain his hold; so the boar escaped. His master began to scold him severely, but the Hound interrupted him with these words: “My will is as strong as ever, master, but my body is old and feeble. You ought to honour me for what I have been instead of abusing me for what I am.” An Old Man cut himself a bundle of faggots in a wood and started to carry them home. He had a long way to go, and was tired out before he had got much more than half-way. Casting his burden on the ground, he called upon Death to come and release him from his life of toil. The words were scarcely out of his mouth when, much to his dismay, Death stood before him and professed his readiness to serve him. He was almost frightened out of his wits, but he had enough presence of mind to stammer out, “Good sir, if you’d be so kind, pray help me up with my burden again.” Βιβλία με παρόμοια αίσθηση
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Ερωτήσεις αναγνωστών
- Πώς είναι το «Aesop's Fables»;
- Ατμόσφαιρα: χιούμορ, τρυφερότητα και μελαγχολία. Μιλά για την ηθική, την εξουσία και την ταυτότητα.
- Τι να διαβάσω μετά το «Aesop's Fables»;
- Αν σου άρεσε το «Aesop's Fables», δοκίμασε «Η γενεαλογία της ηθικής» (Friedrich Nietzsche), «Μύθοι του Αισώπου σε έμμετρη απόδοση» (Παναγιώτης Σούτσος) και «Τα δοκίμια» (Francis Bacon).
Μια γεύση από τη ροή
Τα σταφύλια είναι ξινά, κι η αλεπού έχει έτοιμο λόγο.
Σταφυλὰς μεγαλοῤῥώγους ὅλας καὶ ὡριμασμένας βλέπουσα εἰς ὕψος δράνας ἡ ἀλώπηξ κρεμασμένας, πρώτην ἔφοδον, δευτέραν, τρίτην ἔκαμε πηδῶσα· ἀλλὰ τὰ πηδήματά της ἦσαν μάταια τὰ τόσα· δὲν τὰς ἔφθασεν· ἐκ τούτου ἔφευγεν, ἐπαλινδρόμει· «εἶν’ αἱ σταφυλαὶ» εἰς ὅλους, ἔλεγε, «ξειναὶ ἀκόμη». Ἐπιμύθιον. Τὴν κρυφίαν ἡμῶν λύπην ἄλλοτε παρηγοροῦντες, ἄλλοτε τὴν καταισχύνην νὰ καλύψωμεν ζητοῦντες, εἰς παντὸς ἀποτυχίαν ἀγαθοῦ διὰ χιλίων τὸ περιφρονοῦμεν λόγων ἀνορίκτων καὶ γελοίων.
Μύθοι του Αισώπου σε έμμετρη απόδοση · Παναγιώτης Σούτσος
Η δυσκολία του να προσπαθείς να είσαι ταπεινός.
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.
Αυτοβιογραφία του Βενιαμίν Φραγκλίνου · Benjamin Franklin
Πέντε τρόποι να αρχίσει ένας πόλεμος, χωρίς να χρειάζεται λόγος.
“Sometimes the quarrel between two princes is to decide which of them shall dispossess a third of his dominions, where neither of them pretend to any right. Sometimes one prince quarrels with another for fear the other should quarrel with him. Sometimes a war is entered upon, because the enemy is too strong; and sometimes, because he is too weak. Sometimes our neighbours want the things which we have, or have the things which we want, and we both fight, till they take ours, or give us theirs. It is a very justifiable cause of a war, to invade a country after the people have been wasted by famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions among themselves.
Τα ταξίδια του Γκάλιβερ · Jonathan Swift
Διάβασε σελίδες από βιβλία σαν αυτό, μία τη φορά
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