Frasi di Anacarsi

Anacarsi fu uno dei sette savi della Grecia antica.

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Anacarsi Frasi e Citazioni

“[Anacarsi a Solone] Che le leggi siano come le tele di aragno, in dove restano i soli deboli inviluppati, nell'atto che i potenti le spezzano e se ne liberano.”

citato in Francesco Mario Pagano, Principj del codice penale ; e, Logica de' probabili per servire di teoria ..., p. 4, Da' Torchi di Raffaello Di Napoli, Napoli 1828

Anacarsi: Frasi in inglese

“These decrees of yours are no different from spiders' webs. They'll restrain anyone weak and insignificant who gets caught in them, but they'll be torn to shreds by people with power and wealth.”

Discussing Solon's laws with him, as quoted by Plutarch, in Solon ch. 5; translation by Robin Waterfield from Plutarch Greek Lives (1998) p. 50.
Variants:
Written laws are like spiders’ webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
Laws are spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones.
as quoted in Beeton's Book of Jokes and Jests, or Good Things Said and Sung, Second Edition, Printed by Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1866.

“My country is a disgrace to me, but you are a disgrace to your country.”

On being insulted by an Athenian for being a Scythian, as quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, as translated by C. D. Yonge, (1853), "Anacharsis" sect. 5, p. 48

“Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing.”

As quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, as translated by C. D. Yonge, (1853), "Anacharsis" sect. 5, p. 48

“The forum [is] an established place for men to cheat one another, and behave covetously.”

As quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, as translated by C. D. Yonge) (1853), "Anacharsis" sect. 5, p. 48

“Under which head do you class those who are at sea?”

Having been asked whether the dead or the living were more numerous., as quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius, as translated by C. D. Yonge, (1853), "Anacharsis" sect. 5, p. 48

“A view of the unseemly actions of drunken men is the most effectual dissuasive from wine.”

As quoted in Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Chapter "Life of Anacharsis", 1702 edition, John Nicholson, p. 55

“A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.”

As quoted in Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Chapter "Life of Anacharsis", 1702 edition, John Nicholson, p. 55.
Origine: [Diogenes Laërtius, Diogenes_Laërtius, The Lives of the Ancient Philosophers: Containing an Account of Their Several Fects, Doctrines, Actions and Remarkable Sayings..., http://books.google.com/books?id=SQrULxU3TXMC, 4 September 2013, 1702, John Nicholson, 54, Life of Anarchasis]

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