All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When…

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

— Plato

In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of…

— Ken Blackwell

The ancient Greek philosophers were all natural-born dialecticians and Aristotle, the most encyclopaedic intellect among them, had even already analysed the most essential forms…

— Friedrich Engels

“Greek women were not allowed to be: free and untamed. In fact, Artemis is a bit of a paradox. On the one hand, her…

— Rick Riordan

The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse…

— David Antin

“We will have have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones; these shall vote by tombstones. It is all quite…

— G.K. Chesterton

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the…

— Andrew Lang

I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived by the…

— Anonymous

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. ‘All men make mistakes,’ said the ancient Greek Sophocles. ‘But a good man yields…

— Ken Follett

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

— John F. Kennedy

In some ways, Lotus Eaters is a journey disguised as a party film; there's a circus in the movie, and there are parties, but…

— Alexandra McGuinness

“Modern architects and engineers are still trying to understand how the ancient Greeks were able to build the Parthenon in ten years when the…

— Christopher Dunn

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

— George Bernard Shaw

“After he cut off their genitals, Chronos threw them into the sea, where they floated in a "white foam." Out of this foam‒or "Aphros”…

— Charles River Editors

“One of its (civilisations) most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem…

— Mary Beard