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Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. — Allan Bloom
The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole -- besides being an… — Karl Marx
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the… — Hannah Arendt
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing — Thucydides
The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not… — Isadora Duncan
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So,… — Alan Furst
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets — Heraclitus
The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated… — Anaxagoras
The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese. — Fernando Pessoa
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances, they should fall… — Joseph Kastein
Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm - from the Greek, filled with… — Julia Cameron
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything.… — Edith Hamilton
We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are… — Ronald Reagan
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ...… — Al Sharpton
Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together as wings go… — Janet Lembke
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. — Plato
To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. — Plato
The word 'silly' derives from the Greek 'selig' meaning 'blessed.' There is something sacred in being able to be silly. — Paul Pearsall
The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed… — Unknown Author
One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom. — Socrates
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. — Socrates
Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back. — Herodotus
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek… — Tom Standage
According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them… — Plato

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