Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Animals

    Bee

    animal · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages

    Sicilian bee · bee · like a bee · the bee · the bee's intricate honeycomb

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    The bee1 mention

    To Demonicus (Greek)

    For just as we see the bee settling on all the flowers, and sipping the best from each, so also those who aspire to culture ought not to leave anything untasted, but should gather useful knowledge from every source.
    to demonicus

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    The bee, used both as a metaphor for a wisdom-gathering teacher and as a literal example of diligence.

    or go to the bee, and learn how she is a worker — for she too, grazing over the whole meadow, brings forth a single honeycomb.
    book 1
    A Sicilian bee in truth, plucking the flowers of the prophetic and apostolic meadow, he begot in the souls of his hearers a pure and undefiled thing of knowledge.
    book 1

    To DemonicusClassical · Greek

    An insect used as a metaphor for the seeker of culture, who gathers the best from every source as a bee gathers from every flower.

    For just as we see the bee settling on all the flowers, and sipping the best from each, so also those who aspire to culture ought not to leave anything untasted, but should gather useful knowledge from every source.
    to demonicus

    PythianClassical · Greek

    A bee invoked twice in simile: once to praise Thrasybulus's sweetness of character, and once to characterize the poet's own darting, theme-hopping compositional method.

    The choicest hymn of praise flits from theme to theme, like a bee.
    chapter 10
    His sweet temperament, when he associates with his drinking companions, surpasses even the bee’s intricate honeycomb.
    chapter 6