WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 04 May 2026 19:43:52 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg sick – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Euripides -- Auge [Αὐγῃ], frag. 267 (c. 408 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2014)] https://wist.info/euripides/65581/ https://wist.info/euripides/65581/#respond Tue, 19 Dec 2023 20:20:56 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=65581 The sick state is ingenious at discovering crimes.

[δεινὴ πόλις νοσοῦσ’ ἀνευρίσκειν κακά.]


Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Auge [Αὐγῃ], frag. 267 (c. 408 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2014)]
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Nauck (TGF) fr. 267. ]]> https://wist.info/euripides/65581/feed/ 0 65581 Plato -- The Republic, Book 9 https://wist.info/plato/32283/ https://wist.info/plato/32283/#respond Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:32:50 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=32283 You remember what people say when they are sick? What do they say? That after all, nothing is pleasanter than health. But then they never knew this to be the greatest of pleasures until they were ill.


Plato (c.428-347 BC) Greek philosopher
The Republic, Book 9 ]]> https://wist.info/plato/32283/feed/ 0 32283 Hoffer, Eric -- Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 104 (1955) https://wist.info/hoffer-eric/16636/ https://wist.info/hoffer-eric/16636/#respond Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:09:41 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=16636 The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.


Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 104 (1955)
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