Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
“The chiseled beauty of his features, like an ancient greek coin.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
“All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I was too shocked to register that he’d just cursed in Ancient Greek, and I’d understood him perfectly.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool' — Tim Sandlin Copy Share Image
“If ‘myth’ is a slippery term, so is ‘classical’. It is common shorthand for ‘ancient Greek and Roman’. But this shorthand has… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. —HIPPOCRATES, ANCIENT GREEK FOUNDER OF THE… — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead… — Linda Barnes Copy Share Image
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. ‘All men make mistakes,’ said the ancient Greek Sophocles. ‘But a good… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The technological revolution is itself a direct descendant of the Ancient Greeks' historia, and the web is populated by young people who… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
“I suppose so.” An oath was an oath, though I rather wondered if Hippocrates ever ran into this sort of situation himself.… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
These three qualities I recommend to you; tenacity, goodness, and intelligence. They are as valuable today as they were in the time… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked,… — Tim Birkhead Copy Share Image
I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks told of a philosopher eating bread and lentils for dinner. He was approached by another man, who lived sumptuously… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
“Karl and Marthe held the embossed card gingerly. It was Hitler’s 1941 Christmas card, a photo of the Winged Victory of Samothrace,… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together… — Janet Lembke Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born… — Helen Morales Copy Share Image
“Hippocrates, the ancient Greek doctor, concluded in the fourth century B.C. that pathological anxiety was a straightforward biological and medical problem. “If… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“In Lovelock's view the earth was a 'super-organism,' a cybernetic feedback system that 'seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“Atheism ... goes back to the Ancient Greek (a — a negative prefix, theos — god), evidencing the antiquity of the outlook… — Valerii A. Kuvakin Copy Share Image
“Two centuries ago, Napoleon warned, “Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Today China has awakened, and the… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
“There’s a poetry to it, engineer’s poetry…it suggests Haverie —average, you know—certainly you have two lobes, don’t you, symmetrical about the rocket’s… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“From there they marched against Egypt: and when they were in the part of Syria called Palestine, Psammetichus king of Egypt met them and persuaded them with… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“1 It was early December. The streets of Milan glistened with Christmas decorations, with people coming and going carefree, carrying elegant shopping… — Charlotte Bee Copy Share Image
“12. Historians today rely on classics like Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Caesar’s Gallic War, and Tacitus’s Histories. The earliest copies… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t say “art” as much as “virtue,” in the ancient Greek sense of “andreia” – manly action – or “arete,” excellence.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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