Dot to dot. A new skill every day. In five minutes. Hey guys, today we are looking at a skill that brings us Nuggets Pearls of Wisdom, and you'll see why I say, pronounce it like that at the moment, from both Roman and Greek Ancient Society, Alexa, open Ancient Wisdom.
Welcome, welcome citizen, to Ancient Wisdom. This skill will recite passages from Ancient Greek and Roman sources. After each quotation you will be offered a choice to continue, or to end your session. If you wish to hear the last quote again, just say repeat.
Let's hear a bit of wisdom from the ancients. First, then, I say, the mind, which oft we call the intellect, wherein is seated life's counsel, and regimen, is part, no less of man, and hand and footed eyes, are parts of one whole breathing creature. But some hold a sense of mind, is in no fixed part seated, but is a poly, some one vital state, named harmony by Greeks, because thereby we live with sense, though intellect be not in any part. Lucretius.
The Nature of Things. Book 3. Would you like to hear another quote? Yes.
The protector of the people, having a mob entirely at his disposal, is not restrained from shedding the blood of kinsmen. By the favorite method of false accusation, he brings them into court, and murders them, making the life of man to disappear, and with unholy tongue and lips, tasting the blood of his fellow citizen. Plato. The Republic.
Book 8. Would you like to hear another quote? Yes. We've had two Greek questions.
Let's hear it. Then, spew not reason from thy mind away, beside thyself because the matter's new, but rather with keen judgment nicely weigh, and if to thee it then appeareth true, render thy hands, or, if tis false at last, gird thee to combat. Lucretius, on the nature of things. Book 2.
Would you like to hear another quote? No. I do hope you last a letter again, for ancient wisdom, to learn how the ancients manage their lives and address their problems. Perhaps, even apply their wisdom to your own.
Farewell. Wisdom. The developer chose one of the voices that can't pronounce the wisdom to deliver his skill all about ancient wisdom. Anyway, there you go.
Actually, I don't know if Plato was Greek. He might have been Roman. Yikes. Hello, sir.
Who was Plato? According to Wikipedia, Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the classical period in ancient Greece, Andrew at the Platonist School of Thought, and the Academy. Okay, there you go, guys. Speak here tomorrow.
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