Authors of Term 2's West Civ readings? Quiz by savethetigers

title/work	author	representative sentence
A Journey to the Moon Possible		But suppose withal that he could fly as fast and as long as the swiftest bird...
Cynicus		But tell me, don't you consider extravagance a vice?
De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things)		And while the sun revolved through the sky for many lustres, men lived their life after the roving fashion of the beasts.
Epistulae Morales		But however excelling and guileless their life, the men of that time were not wise men...
In Derision of a Country Life		If these are comforts for a wife / Defend, defend me from a country life.
Nichomachean Ethics		But if happiness consists in activity in accordance with virtue...
Phaedra		I think the first life nature poured in human mold was touched by the divine and lived like this...
Satires - The Town and Country Mouse		My friend, what's the fun living here, eking it out on the edge of a precipitous forest?

title/work	author	representative sentence
The Beatitudes		Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
The Cistercian Order		They never leave the cloister but for the purpose of labour, nor do they ever speak...
'The Country Life'; 'His Content in the Country'		Sweet as the blossoms of the Vine...
The Lotos Eaters		Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil...
The Monastic Ideal		The richer you may be in the poor lucre of this world, the more miserably lacking you are in true riches.
The New Atlantis		The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes...
Utopia		In no victory do they glory so much as in that which is gained by dexterity and good conduct without bloodshed.

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