Adelchi Canto V Scene VIII
vv 340-360
Cease the complaints / Cease, or father, God! This was not: time to die? But you, who took / You will live, who lived in the palace, listen. / is the great secret life, and in includes / That last hour . / Ti was taken from a kingdom: / Ah! You do not weep; Believe me. / So that this / Time yourself approaches, merry / It will deploy to your thoughts before / The years in which the king has not been, where / Nor even noticed a tear in the sky / FIA against you, nor your name saravvi / With the curse of 'troubled ascended. / Godi that you are not king, who enjoy closed / All 'oprar thee every way: a nice site / In deed there is no innocent: it is / What to do wrong, or patirlo. / A fierce / Force the world has and makes nomarsi / Straight , the bloody hand of avi / sowing injustice, the fathers have / Bred with blood, and henceforth the earth / Other harvest does not. Hold unfair / Dolce is not, and you've tried the: e was; / goddesses not finish it? / This happy / when my death is the firmest throne / Cui all smiles, welcomes and serves all, / This is a man who will die. (Alessandro Manzoni 1785-1873)
Bhagavad Gita
extract Canto I - The Grief of Arjuna Arjuna
said
28. "Seeing, or Krishna, these my kinsmen assembled here eager to fight, my limbs fail and my mouth is dry.
29." Trembling and my hair stand on end. Gandia The sacred bow slips from my hand and my skin burns.
30. "Nor can I stand. My mind wanders here and there, or Keshava, and I see bad omens.
31." Nor, O Krishna, I perceive no salutary effect in killing my relatives in battle. I do not want either the triumph or the kingdom, and even the pleasures of the senses.
32 to 34. "What we need the domain, we need happiness or even go on living, or Govinda? The same dear for the sake of which we want the empire, the joy and pleasure, here are arrayed in battle, ready to give up life and wealth: tutors, fathers, children, grandparents, uncles, in-laws, grandchildren, in-laws and other relatives.
35. "O Madhusudana , although these warriors were to kill me, I could never want to kill them, even if when I got the dominion over the three worlds . And at least I could do it for love of the earth!
Canto II - Sankhya Yoga
30. "O Bharata, the One who dwells in the bodies of all beings is always indestructible. So you do not have excruciating pain to any creature.
31. "Even from the perspective of your dharma (the duty to correct), do not hesitate internally, because for a kshatriya there is nothing more auspicious than a good fight (to defend the interests of his friends and ideals of life) .
32. "Son of Pritha, blessed and lucky are the Kshatriyas (warriors) are called to fight in a battle that is right without having provoked, and that opens the door for them in heaven.
33. "But if I refuse to engage in this battle right, leaving your dharma (duty), and your honor specifically would you do sin.
34." Men always speak about your dishonorable action. And I'uomo of honor, dishonor is really worse than death.
Canto III - Karma Yoga
Arjuna said
1. "O Janardana, if you consider the superior knowledge to action, then why - or want Keshava I undertake in this terrible action?
2." With these words, seemingly contradictory You are, so to say, confusing my intellect. Please let me know for sure the only thing by which I can reach the highest good. "Cosmic The Lord said
3. O Without Pity, the beginning of creation I gave the world the double way of salvation. The path of union through the divine wisdom Jnana-yoga), for the wise (the followers of Sankhya), the path divine union through meditation on (karma yoga), for the yogi.
4. "Nobody reaches the state of inaction to take avoiding action. No one attains perfection by simply giving up the action.
5." In truth no one can remain without action even for a moment, for indeed all are inevitably forced to action by qualities (gunas) born of Nature (Prakriti).
6. "The individual with the force that controls the organs of action but whose mind revolves around the thoughts of sense objects, is called a hypocrite, one who deceives himself.
7." While the man who rules the senses with the mind, without attachment, firmly maintaining his organs of action on the path of karma yoga, these - Arjuna - has great success.
8. "Perform actions that make up your sacred duty, because the action is better than inaction. Even the simple preservation of the body would be impossible without business.
9." The people of the world karmically related to activities other than those made as yajna (religious ritual). O Son of Kunti, therefore, act without attachment , in the spirit of yajna, the offering shares as donations .
(Mahabharata 400 BC)
Hamlet Act III, Scene I
be or not to be, that is the problem. And 'perhaps more noble to suffer in the depths of his spirit, the stones and arrows flung outrage fortune, or take up arms, however, against the sea of \u200b\u200baffliction, and fighting with them they put an end? To die to sleep. Nothing more. And with that sleep to calm the painful beats of the heart, and the thousand natural offenses of which he is heir to the meat! Quest 'is an end devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep. Sleep, perchance to dream. And 'here the obstacle, for in that sleep of death, all the dreams that possan come when we'll be free from turmoil, from the tangle this mortal life, should make us reflect. It 'just that scruple to give the calamity of life so long! Why, who would be able to bear the whips and the mockery of the century, the wrongs of the oppressor, the outrages of the proud, the suffering of unrequited love, the law's delay, the insolence of the powerful and the mockery that the merit patient receives the unworthy, if he could give himself his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who adapts to take charge, to groan and sweat under the weight of a hard life, except that the dread of something after death - that uncharted territory from whose bourn no traveler-not back confusing and perplexes the will, and persuades us to bear the ills that already suffer rather than rushing towards others of which are still we know nothing. In this way, all consciousness makes us cowards, and the complexion's natural resolution is made unhealthy by the pale hue of thought, and enterprises of great moment and consequence, this scruple to divert their currents, and lose the name of action . But silence! The fair Ophelia!
(William Shakespeare 1564-1616)
