In the Alvíssmál (" The Sayings of All-Wise "), elves are considered distinct from both the Æsir and the Vanir.

The only surviving complete works by Epicurus are three letters, which are to be found in book X of Diogenes Laertius ' Lives of Eminent Philosophers, and two groups of quotes: the Principal Doctrines, reported as well in Diogenes ' book X, and the Vatican Sayings, preserved in a manuscript from the Vatican Library.

The term Hesychast is used sparingly in Christian ascetical writings emanating from Egypt from the 4th century on, although the writings of Evagrius and the Sayings of the Desert Fathers do attest to it.

* Folk Sayings from Italy ( see the thematic list on the left hand side of the page )

Plutarch's Moralia contains a collection of " Sayings of Spartan Women ", including a laconic quip attributed to Gorgo: when asked by a woman from Attica why Spartan women were the only women in the world who could rule men, she replied " Because we are the only women who are mothers of men ".

A Lutheran Good Friday tenebrae service bulletin with Sayings of Jesus on the cross | The First Word from the Cross and a hymn based on Luke 23: 26-34.

Another collection of his talks is the Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki ( Gleanings from Master Dōgen ’ s Sayings ) in six volumes.

* A collection of Sayings, some of them translated from Greek.

The Yavanajataka (" Sayings of the Greeks ") was translated from Greek to Sanskrit by Yavanesvara during the 2nd century CE, under the patronage of the Western Satrap Saka king Rudradaman I, and is considered the first Indian astrological treatise in the Sanskrit language.

On the question of the relationship of the Synoptic Gospels, Holtzmann in his early work, Die synoptischen Evangelien, ihr Ursprung und geschichtlicher Charakter ( The Synoptic Gospels: Their Origin and Historical Character ; Leipzig, 1863 ), presents a view which has been widely accepted, maintaining the priority of Mark, deriving Matthew in its present form from Mark and from Matthew's earlier " collection of Sayings ," the Logia of Papias, and Luke from Matthew and Mark in the form in which we have them.

After both of them had returned to England, one of the first, if not the first, books printed in England was Rivers ' translation from French of the Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, printed by Caxton at Westminster in 1477.

* Selected Sayings from the Perfection of Wisdom ( 1955 )

" Old Plantation Play Song ", from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881

The Sayings of Jesus on the cross ( also called the Seven Last Words from the Cross ) are seven expressions traditionally attributed to Jesus during his crucifixion, gathered from the four Canonical Gospels.

* Sayings of the Salaf ( translations of quotes from the Salaf )

* Signposts: A Collection of Sayings from A. W.

* Slings and Arrows: Sayings Chosen from the Speeches of the Rt.

Prevented from marrying into Kotys ' family, Amyntas soon adopted Iphicrates as his son.

For a time, the two forces merely raided each other's territory, but eventually Iphicrates succeeded in guessing where Anaxibius would bring his troops on a return march from a campaign against Antandrus, and ambushed the Spartan force.

* Sixty-three Stratagems of Iphicrates, from Book 3 of Polyaenus

An example of this would be the Battle of Lechaeum, where an Athenian contingent led by Iphicrates routed an entire Spartan mora ( a unit of anywhere from 500 to 900 hoplites ).

: originally from Plutarch, Moralia, c. 95 AD, regarding the death of Euripides

In addition to the aphorisms which conclude Dialectic of Enlightenment, Adorno put together a collection of aphorisms in honor of Horkheimer ’ s fiftieth birthday that would later be published as Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life.

Adorno ’ s own recently published Minima Moralia was not only well received in the press, but also met with great admiration from Thomas Mann, who wrote to Adorno from America in 1952:

* Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life ( 1951 )

The book takes its title from Magna Moralia, Aristotle's lesser-known work on ethics.

* Plutarch's Moralia from the Online Library of Liberty Complete William W. Goodwin translation 1878 in PDF facsimile, plus selections as PDF ebooks and HTML.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

We know little more of the life of Andronicus, but he is of special interest in the history of philosophy, from the statement of Plutarch, that he published a new edition of the works of Aristotle and Theophrastus, which formerly belonged to the library of Apellicon, and were brought to Rome by Sulla with the rest of Apellicon's library in 84 BC.

) Plutarch placed it in the 37th year from the foundation of Rome, on the fifth of our July, then called Quintilis, also states that Romulus ruled for 37 years.

The phrase enkyklios paideia ( ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία ) was used by Plutarch and the Latin word Enciclopedia came from him. The first work titled in this way was the Encyclopedia orbisque doctrinarum, hoc est omnium artium, scientiarum, ipsius philosophiae index ac divisio written by Johannes Aventinus in 1517.

Plutarch is the source also for the story that the victorious Spartan generals, having planned the demolition of Athens and the enslavement of its people, grew merciful after being entertained at a banquet by lyrics from Euripides's play Electra: " they felt that it would be a barbarous act to annihilate a city which produced such men " ( Life of Lysander )

However, according to Plutarch, these traits proceeded from stability, greatness of mind, and lion-likeness of temper.

Compare the carved and incised " sacred glyphs " hieroglyphs, which have had a longer history in English, dating from the first Elizabethan translation of Plutarch, who adopted " hieroglyphic " as a Latin adjective.

Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.

Seleucus is known from the writings of Plutarch.

His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch and other classical historians, as well as from medieval chroniclers such as Geoffrey of Villehardouin and Jean Froissart.

Most information we have on the myths of Osiris is derived from allusions contained in the Pyramid Texts at the end of the Fifth Dynasty, later New Kingdom source documents such as the Shabaka Stone and the Contending of Horus and Seth, and much later, in narrative style from the writings of Greek authors including Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus.

Plutarch mentions that ( for much later period ) two days after the beginning of the festival " the priests bring forth a sacred chest containing a small golden coffer, into which they pour some potable water ... and a great shout arises from the company for joy that Osiris is found ( or resurrected ).

Both Livy ( in Latin, living in Augustus ' time ) and Plutarch ( in Greek, a century later ), described how Rome had developed its legislation, notably the transition from a kingdom to a republic, by following the example of the Greeks.

In his chapter on Romulus from Parallel Lives, Plutarch criticises the continuous belief in such disappearances, referring to the allegedly miraculous disappearance of the historical figures Romulus, Cleomedes of Astypalaea, and Croesus.

The knowledge we have of them derives from accounts of later philosophical writers ( especially Aristotle, Plutarch, Diogenes Laërtius, Stobaeus and Simplicius ), and some early theologians, ( especially Clement of Alexandria and Hippolytus of Rome ).

Themistocles can still reasonably be thought of as " the man most instrumental in achieving the salvation of Greece " from the Persian threat, as Plutarch describes him.

His mother is more obscure ; according to Plutarch, she was either a Thracian woman called Abrotonon, or Euterpe, a Carian from Halicarnassus.

It is based primarily upon the Life of Themistocles and Life of Aristides from Plutarch.

The rejection of the heliocentric view was apparently quite strong, as the following passage from Plutarch suggests ( On the Apparent Face in the Orb of the Moon ):

* Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Polycarpus to Plutarch.

* Change of Patriarch of Constantinople from Patriarch Plutarch to Patriarch Sedecion.

Brutus also uttered the well-known verse calling down a curse upon Antonius ( Plutarch repeats this from the memoirs of Publius Volumnius ): Forget not, Zeus, the author of these crimes ( in the Dryden translation this passage is given as Punish, great Jove, the author of these ills ).