{"id":2046,"date":"2022-05-13T05:16:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T05:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/13\/courage\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T05:16:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T05:16:32","slug":"courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/13\/courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mut verloren \u2014 alles verloren!<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
Da w\u00e4r es besser, nicht geboren!<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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To lose courage is to lose everything, in which case it would have been better never to have been born.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A few stabs at rhyme-preserving translation:<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Of courage shorn, of everything shorn!<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
In that case better, never to have been born!<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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Courage lost \u2014 everything lost!<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
Then having been born's too high a cost!<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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Loss of courage, something fatal!<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
Better then, never natal!<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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Loss of heart \u2014 loss of all!<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
'Twould then have been better, not to be at all!<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mut verloren \u2014 alles verloren! Da w\u00e4r es besser, nicht geboren! To lose courage is to lose everything, in which case it would have been better never to have been born.   A few stabs at rhyme-preserving translation: Of courage shorn, of everything shorn! In that case better, never to have been born! Courage lost … Continue reading “Courage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[531,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translations","category-virtues-and-vices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}