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2020-12-16 10:36 pm
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So natural is it for most men to be more galled by bitter words than hostile acts; since insolence is harder for them to bear than injury. Besides, defensive acts are tolerated in an enemy as a necessary right, but insults are thought to spring from an excess of hatred or baseness.

--- Plutarch, the Lives. Timolean 32.
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Timoleon*.html

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2016-11-23 02:05 pm
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Закрывая тему мудрости

The frequencies of the verses specifying specific domains of wisdom were then counted. The 10 domains we identified (with the number of verses related to each domain given in parentheses) were as follows: Knowledge of life (28 verses), Emotional Regulation (20 verses), Control over Desires (20 verses), Decisiveness (20 verses), Love of God (19 verses), Duty and Work (14 verses), Self–Contentedness (13 verses), Yoga or Integration of Personality (12 verses), Compassion/Sacrifice (8 verses), and Insight/Humility (7 verses).

Jeste & Vahia. Comparison of the Conceptualization of Wisdom in Ancient Indian Literature with Modern Views: Focus on the Bhagavad Gita. 2008.

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