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“The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.”

— Cato

“I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.”

— Hermann Hesse

“lines and angles, flat and bland, raise these volumes and make them stand.”

— James Moloney

“If the Greeks were—as they were indeed—a brilliant people, they were individualistic to a fault, and concerned with the fate and fortune of themselves…

— Ernle Bradford

“I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.”

— Anne Lamott

“You could, if so inclined, read more Greek texts in the original Greek than the most prestigious Greek nobleman of classical times.”

— Kevin Kelly

“The nature of civilisation everywhere was such that, even with the Greeks, it diverted people’s minds away from the reality of death.”

— Antal Szerb

“History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.”

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“I’ve always liked it about the Greeks that they kept the violence off the stage.”

— Donna Leon

“The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? This question is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“After all, in the end all the great moments of history have taken place inside people’s heads. The moments of change, or the clinamen…

— Kim Stanley Robinson