"And though thou hadst small Latin, and less…" — Ben Jonson
"And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek."
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174 Quotes by Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson has 174 quotes on this site.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and…
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
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More Greek Quotes
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
— Aristotle
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No one loves the man whom he fears.
— Aristotle
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
— Lord Acton
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Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity,…
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.
— Eric Bana
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
— John Berger
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The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see…
— Stella Adler
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The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.
— Edward Bond
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think…
— Vince Cable
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