I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of… — Yanni Copy Share Image
“The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.” — Luke Slattery Copy Share Image
“Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“I heard the voice of that bird, son of Polypas, whose piercing outcry and whose arrival announces to men the season when… — Theognis Copy Share Image
A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We believe that the Greeks have been punished through [the Crusades] by the just judgement of God: these Greeks who have striven… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the… — Jorge Garcia Copy Share Image
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and… — Jeanne Achterberg Copy Share Image
“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
I would describe that [friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras] as a utilitarian friendship. At the time, his country was facing… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I’m~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit, combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should… — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa. — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didnt see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
