Quote for the Day: Life Is a Wheel

Friday, December 16, 2011 at 5:42PM
R. Mansfield

"Κοινὰ πάθη πάντων· ὁ βίος τροχός· ἄστατος ὄλβος."

"Suffering is common to all; life is a wheel; prosperity is unstable."

 

Pseudo-Phocylides
(Translation by P. W. van der Horst) 

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