Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy.… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
“Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for sensual pleasures, nothing for comfort or praise or promotion, but is simply determined… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
“They are all dead now, Diocletian and Ignatius, Cyril and Hypatia, Julian and Basil, Athanasius and Arîus: every party has yielded up its persecutors… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
