Polus Quotes
Polus of Acragas was a Greek sophist and rhetorician of the late fifth century BC, a pupil of the great rhetorician Gorgias and the author of a now-lost handbook of rhetoric. He is best known to us through Plato's Gorgias, in which he appears as one of Socrates's principal interlocutors, defending the position that the able orator is happy because he can do as he pleases in his city, and being driven by Socrates to admit, against his own intentions, that to do injustice is worse than to suffer it. The quotes below are attributed to Polus, organized by topic.
Polus on Freedom
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“Even the hen doesn't lay for free.”
Ani kura za darmo nie gdacze.
Polus on Justice
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Attributed to Polus:
“It seems to me that to do injustice is bad, and to suffer it worse.”
Polus on Knowledge
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“Ani kura za darmo nie gdacze.”
Even the hen doesn't lay for free. | English equivalent: Nothing for nothing. -
“English equivalent: Nothing for nothing.”
Ani kura za darmo nie gdacze. -
“Za dziękuje nic się nie kupuje. ( See in the Z section )”
Your "Thank you" is fine but it will not help me pay my bills. | English equivalent: Nothing for nothing. | Strauss, Emanuel (1994). "955" . Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs . II . Routledge. p. 798. ISBN 978-1-136-78971-7 . -
“Your "Thank you" is fine but it will not help me pay my bills.”
Za dziękuje nic się nie kupuje. ( See in the Z section ) -
“English equivalent: Nothing for nothing.”
Za dziękuje nic się nie kupuje. ( See in the Z section ) -
“Strauss, Emanuel (1994). "955" . Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs . II . Routledge. p. 798. ISBN 978-1-136-78971-7 .”
Za dziękuje nic się nie kupuje. ( See in the Z section ) -
“Anielskie usta a szatanskie serce .”
English equivalent: A honey tongue and a heart of gall. | Strauss, Emanuel (1998). Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs (Abbreviated ed.). Routledge. p. 108. ISBN 0415160502 . -
“English equivalent: A honey tongue and a heart of gall.”
Anielskie usta a szatanskie serce . -
“Strauss, Emanuel (1998). Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs (Abbreviated ed.). Routledge. p. 108. ISBN 0415160502 .”
Anielskie usta a szatanskie serce .
Polus on Politics
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Attributed to Polus:
“The orator can do as he pleases in his city; that is the meaning of his art.”
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Attributed to Polus:
“Rhetoric is the science of persuasion, and persuasion is the secret of every regime.”
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Attributed to Polus:
“He who can master the assembly has mastered the city.”
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Attributed to Polus:
“Power is a gift the gods grant only to those who know how to speak.”