Many of the catchphrases of the great ancient historians, followers of philosophy and scientists are quite relevant at any time and especially now. What thoughts did the predecessors leave in our legacy? And what are they telling us? This is what we will try to find out in this article.
Phrases about love, God and development
"Amor omnia vincit!" - Everything conquers love!
Are not the people of antiquity right when designating
this feeling in a world where vices and temptations obscured the minds of many? They knew what many religions and teachings are cultivating now - that love can save from any misfortune, adversity and fear.
Or another: "Deus ipse se fecit" - God created himself. This is a great phrase that is applicable not only to thinking about the transcendental. In this phrase, we feel the emphasis on the fact that each person should strive for development himself, showing persistence and due patience. Thus, arguing about the infinity of the Universe, about the manifestations of the Divine essence in all living things and in ourselves, we affirm ourselves in the belief that through development and self-improvement we can achieve more than you can imagine.
Catch phrases with translation
The great minds of antiquity left us infinite wealth, embodied in short sentences, the meanings of which we can comprehend endlessly. Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire are especially rich in this respect, the main language of which was Latin. We will consider winged phrases of these countries below.
- "Audi, multa, loquere pauca" - " Listen a lot, speak a little." This truth has been known since time immemorial, because often we are told it when they warn against the dangers of a talkative language. She finds another application, of course, in training.
- "Ab altero expectes, alteri quod feceris" - " Expect from another what you have done to another." Listening to this phrase, used in ancient antiquity, we are sensitive to our surroundings, attentive and caring to family, kind to all people.
- "Equus Troianus" - "Trojan Horse". A very ancient, but well-known allegory of films and books, symbolizing an insidious gift that entailed the death of an entire city.
- "Est avis in dextra, melior quam quattuor extra" - "Better a tit in a hand than a crane in the sky." With this phrase, the ancient Romans had in mind that the ability to be content with what is is the guarantee of a calm and happy life.
- " Si vis pacem, para bellum " - "Want peace - get ready for war." This phrase is especially relevant for the current time, so we will consider it in more detail below.
"Want peace - get ready for war"
Powerful defense and a large, well-trained army at all times have been the key to a calm life and prosperity of any country. Such a meaning was laid by the ancient Roman historian Cornelius Nepot (94-24 BC), who used it to describe the life of the great military commander Epaminondas, who lived in the VI century BC.
“If you want peace, get ready for war”, oddly enough, but today this phrase is very, very relevant, especially for our country, because the acute economic situation makes the heads of state and its entire circle look with caution at their neighbors in Europe and the USA, peering out in their ranks of enemies and initiators of war. The twentieth century found two world wars and one cold, and all this in such a short time. Do we need other evidence that the world does not change until people change - the responsibility of those who exercise power is especially great. After all, each subsequent war was a bloody past, what will happen next?
What do ancient people want to tell us?
"Eventus docet" - "Event teaches," the philosophers of antiquity repeat to us, and they are certainly right in this. But do past people teach us modern people? Will the world government allow great sacrifices?
By the way, Latin also gave us this saying. The winged phrases, and especially "Want peace - get ready for war", the ancient Romans used quite often. Sadly, world government has not changed since then and still nourishes such a mood among the masses. This phrase emphasizes their worldview and morality, justifies the measures of their rule, where sometimes one word can describe the fate of millions of people. “Everyone must do his own thing,” the thinkers of antiquity tell us through space and time. So they advise us to do our work even harder - to tell the truth, open it from the bowels and bring it to people, teaching them to live the truth, in truth, in the light.
“Let there be light!”
Knowledge is the true light bestowed upon us from above, and only by spreading it we make the world brighter and brighter. True knowledge is what makes life better. Each person needs experience to move him up the ladder of development higher and higher towards God, the Absolute, Brahman, the Universe.
But what does the modern world and the ruling capitalism teach us? But it’s better to end this small article in the same manner that they started - with the catch phrases of antiquity, it will be more correct, because:
- "Gutta cavat lapidem" - "A drop wears away a stone." This thought teaches us patience, because time is the only factor that can affect the most global events. There is an addition to this phrase - "Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo", which says that water sharpens a stone not by force, but by the frequency of its fall. This idea applies to any event, movement, or even training.
- "Feci quod potui, faciant meliora potentes" - "I did everything I could, whoever can, let it do better." Good idea, which will complete this improvisation.