FYP 2022 Midterm essay question quiz

“And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them"

“The norms had been fixed (and) all [their] portents, / All the gods apportioned the stations of heaven and earth”

‘[H]e will embrace her, and then the wild beasts will reject him’”

“Enkidu was grown weak, for wisdom was in him, and the thoughts of a man were in his heart”

“So Enkidu and Gilgamesh embraced and their friendship was sealed”

“There’s not a Greek here who has not said / Spiteful things about me. But I am not to blame”

‘“Where is the man who can clamber to heaven? Only the gods live for ever with glorious Shamash, but as for us men our days are numbered, our occupations are a breath of wind’

“‘I will set up my name where the names of famous men are written’”

“‘Listen, my friend, this is the dream I dreamed last night’”

“This too was the work of Gilgamesh ... He went a long journey, was weary, worn out with labour, and returning engraved on a stone the whole story”

“But the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not die’”

"Then the LORD God said ‘Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil’”

“And the LORD said to Moses, ‘When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go’”

“Their ways are verily loathsome unto me. / ... I will destroy, I will wreck their ways, / That quiet may be restored’”

“You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth”

“Which of the immortals set these two / At each other’s throats? / Apollo, / Zeus’ son and Leto’s, offended / By the warlord”

“We don’t get to choose what the gods give us, you know, / And we can’t just toss their gifts aside”

“Who could blame either the Trojans or Greeks / For suffering so long for a woman like this”

“Gods are / To humans what humans are to crawling bugs”

“When I lose you, Hector, / There will be nothing left, no one to turn to, / Only pain”

“Deep in my heart I know too well / There will come a day when holy Ilion will perish, / And Priam and the people under Priam’s ash spear”

“I tried to dissuade you, but you gave in / To your pride and dishonoured a great man / Whom the immortals esteem”

“In the end, everybody comes out the same. / Coward and hero get the same reward: / You die whether you slack off or work. / And what do I have for all my suffering, / Constantly putting my life on the line?”

“...you violated the order of things / When you took the armour from his shoulders and head”

“Your grief afflicts each person individually, / in isolation from the rest; my spirit, though, / groans for the city, and myself, and you as well”

“And I say this—since you insulted me as blind: / you’re sighted, but don’t see what evil you are in, / or where you dwell, or who lives with you in your house”

“Therefore, as far as prophecy’s concerned, I would / in future not look this way as opposed to that”

“You shot your arrow beyond the limit, / winning power over a prosperity / not blessed with happiness in every way”

“She mourned the bed where she, unhappy one, gave birth / twice over: husband from her husband, children from / her child”

“And we say that the many beautiful things and the rest are visible but not intelligible, while the forms are intelligible but not visible”

“...geometry is knowledge of what always is”

“...those who happen to have gotten in touch with philosophy in the right way devote themselves to nothing else but dying and being dead”

“...as long as we have the body accompanying the argument in our investigation, and our soul is smushed together with this sort of evil, we'll never, ever sufficiently attain what we desire”

“Well then, since this is how things stand, isn't body apt to be dissolved quickly and soul in turn apt to be altogether indissoluble, or something close to this?”

“For in these matters, a man must, it seems to me, accomplish one of these things: He must learn or discover what’s the case, or, if that’s impossible, he must sail through life in the midst of danger, seizing on the best and least refutable of human accounts, at any rate, and letting himself be carried upon it as on a raft—unless, that is, he could journey more safely and less dangerously on a more stable carrier, some divine account”

“...it’s not possible”, he said, “for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments”’

“Imagine not being able to distinguish that it’s one thing to be genuinely the cause, and another to be that without which the cause wouldn’t be a cause!”

‘“Crito,” he said, “we owe a cock to Asclepius. So pay the debt and don’t be careless”’

“Some say an army of horsemen, others / say foot soldiers, still others say a fleet / is the finest thing on the dark earth. / I say it is whatever one loves”

“I can say nothing, my tongue is broken” (Sappho 31, p. 154). Discuss in relation to Catullus’s line “my tongue goes torpid”

“She had more noble ideas and displayed no fear of the sword / that most women might feel”

“Every lover is a soldier”

“When, nude, her dress ripped away, she wrestles with me, then truly we compose lengthy Iliads”

“‘Friends, we are all at home with suffering – [....] Sometime you may recall today with pleasure’”

“‘Dear Father, let them set you on my shoulders. I’ll carry you – you will not weigh me down’”

“‘Why do you rave and revel in this sorrow, / Sweet husband? It was by the will of heaven / This came about. It was not right to take me’”

“I recognize the remnants of that flame”

“If fate would let me live the life I chose, / If I had power over my decisions, / I would have stayed at Troy, where I could tend / Beloved graves”

“There was no fate or justice in her death”

“She only glared in fury / While he was pleading, while he called up tears. / Her eyes stayed on the ground, her face averted, / As changeless in expression, while she spoke, / As granite or a jagged marble outcrop”

“Come, hear your destiny, the future glory / Of Dardanus’ long line”

“The starting point for their evil is, then, audacity, generation, primary difference, and their willing that they belong to themselves”

“Everything longs for that which generated it and loves this, especially when there is just generator and that which is generated”

“And these statements of ours are not new nor even recent, but rather were made a long time ago, though not explicitly”

“He taught Adam all the names [of things], and then He showed them to the angels and said, ‘Tell me the names of these if you truly [think you can]’”

“God said, ‘What prevented you from bowing down as I commanded you?’ and he said, ‘I am better than him: You created me from fire and him from clay’”

“I am God; there is no god but Me”

“[I was taken up to] the sixth heaven and there was a dark man with a hooked nose...[t]his was my brother Moses”

“I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate”

“They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator”

“And I was stripped naked, and I became a man”

“The day of their victory dawned, and they marched from the prison to the amphitheater, joyously, as if going to heaven, their faces radiant; and if by chance they trembled, it was from joy and not from fear”

“You stir man to take pleasure in praising you, because you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you”

“What is more pitiable than a wretch without pity for himself who weeps over the death of Dido”

“I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction”

“I sought an object for my love"

"My eyes looked for him everywhere, and he was not there... I had become to myself a vast problem ... Only tears were sweet to me, and in my ‘soul’s delights’ weeping had replaced my friend "

“I searched for the origin of evil, but I searched in a flawed way and did not see the flaw in my very search”

“To possess my God, the humble Jesus, I was not yet humble enough. I did not know what his weakness was meant to teach”

“I threw myself down somehow under a certain figtree, and let my tears flow freely”

“Just as flattering friends corrupt, so quarrelsome enemies often bring us correction”

“Now that I had lost the immense support [Monica] gave, my soul was wounded, and my life as it were torn to pieces, since my life and hers had become one single thing”

“Death is before me today / Like a man’s longing to see his home / When he has spent many years in captivity” -T

“Whether you offer on the brazier, (150) whether you bear down on life, as you say, love me here when you have set aside the West! But when it is wished that you attain the West, that your body joins the earth, I shall alight after you have become weary, and then we shall dwell together!” -T

“All distant lands, / you make them live, / for you set a Nile in the sky / that it may descend for them / and make waves upon the mountains like the sea / to irrigate the fields in their towns / How functional are your designs, Lord of eternity” -T

“Yet you are alone” -T

“Then the Chief Steward Rensi, the son of Meru, kept silent, neither replying to the magistrates nor giving answer to the peasant” -T

“But the stability of the land is to do Ma’at” -T

“The Master said, ‘One who rules through the power of Virtue is analogous to the Pole Star: it simply remains in its place and receives the homage of the myriad lesser stars’” -T

“The Master said, ‘A man who is not Good—what has he to do with ritual? A man who is not Good—what has he to do with music?’” -T

“If Your Majesty were pained at its being innocent and going to the execution ground, then what is there to choose between an ox and a sheep?” -T

“The heart of compassion is the sprout of benevolence” -T

“Therefore excellence is a kind of mean, since it aims at what is intermediate” -T

“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves” -T

“But such a life would be too high for man; for it is not in so far as he is man that he will live so, but in so far as something divine is present in him” -T

“Further, the state is by nature clearly prior to the family and to the individual, since the whole is of necessity prior to the part” -T

“In this no lack of purpose may be seen. / For as with children, when the doctors try / To give them loathsome wormwood, first they smear / Sweet yellow honey on the goblet’s rim / That childhood all unheeding may be deceived [...] tricked but not betrayed [...] So now do I” -T

“Do you not see that Nature cries for this, / And only this, that pain from out the body / Shall be removed away, and mind enjoy / Sweet sense of pleasure, freed from care and fear?” -T

“The spirit / Has both a birthday and a funeral” -T

“Fools make for themselves a Hell on earth” -T

“For nearness to Him, may he be exalted, consists in apprehending Him; and remoteness from Him is the lot of him who does not know Him” -T

“For He has no ‘That’ outside of His ‘What’” -T

“The intention in ascribing these attributes to Him is to signify that He is neither powerless nor ignorant nor inattentive nor negligent” -T

“I do not venerate the creation instead of the creator, but I venerate the Creator, created for my sake, who came down to his creation without being lowered or weakened, that he might glorify my nature and bring about communion with the divine nature” -T

“An image is a likeness depicting an archetype, but having some difference from it; the image is not like the archetype in every way” -T

“I reverence the rest of matter and hold in respect that through which my salvation came, because it is filled with divine energy and grace” -T

“God is therefore called mind, reason, spirit, wisdom, and power “as causative of these, as immaterial, and as all-working and all-powerful” - T