New Twitter: Wisdom Sayings and Phrases

I created a new Twitter: @felipeluiss_msn – with the aim of spreading proverbs and phrases of wisdom from all peoples.

I use below the presentation of the Dictionary of Proverbs, by Roberto Lacerda, Helena Lacerda and Estela Abreu, to explain the origin of proverbs and “what are proverbs”:

“The origin of proverbs is lost in the darkness of time. Anonymously created, however, they were recorded by various ancient peoples. There are Egyptian proverbs prior to 2500 BC. C. and, in ancient China and India, they served to inculcate moral precepts and convey philosophical ideas. However, it was up to the Hebrews (in their sacred book, the Bible) and the Greeks (in their works) to use them literarily, consolidating their form.

Ancient Greece is, therefore, responsible for the dissemination of numerous proverbs that permeate the writings of Hesiod, Theognis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Menander, Demetrius, Theophrastus and many other authors.

Among the Latins, disciples and followers of the Greeks, there are also several writers who wrote and used them, such as Plautus, Terence, Cato, Lucretius, Cicero, Publilius Syrus, Virgil, Horace, Phaedrus, Quintilian, Seneca, Quintus Curtius, Juvenal, Aulus Gelius, Festus, Macrobius, Isidore…

The Old Testament (especially the Book of ProverbsO Churchman it’s the Ecclesiastes, attributed to Solomon) and the Gospels also constitute a considerable repository of maxims of a moral or religious nature.

To these three rich sources that generated or transmitted proverbs in Antiquity, came to be added – in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance and throughout the following centuries – the creative genius of a Chaucer, a Villon, a Dante, a Shakespeare, a Tasso, a Cervantes, a Camões, a Rabelais, a La Fontaine, giving shape, each in his own language, to thoughts that were the common heritage of Western culture.

And on the definition of a proverb, the authors say: As it is understood today, ‘a proverb is a complete and independent sentence – generally anonymously created – that expresses, often metaphorically, a thought, a precept, a warning, an advice…’

So I hope you like it and follow my New Twitter: @felipeluiss_msn

Yours sincerely,

Felipe de Souza

ONLINE PSYCHOLOGY

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