Best Greeks Wisdom
214 Greeks quotes by 173 unique authors
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I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need to attend your…
— Madeline Miller
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A legacy that powerful does not disappear. Next to the Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans were babies. Our modern nations like Great Britain and America?…
— Rick Riordan
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To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.
— Sidney Sheldon
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Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
— Winston Churchill
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Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
— Theodore Parker
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The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their gods were good,…
— Margaret Visser
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We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound…
— Isadora Duncan
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Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which…
— Albert Camus
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The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes…
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes…
— Bayard Taylor
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The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions…
— Richard Jefferies
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In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and…
— Simon Van Booy
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For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.
— Neil MacGregor
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Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero - the Greeks, the…
— Seth Shostak
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The human eye has long fascinated lovers, artists and physicians. The ancient Greeks dissected eyes, but struggled to understand how they worked, unclear as to…
— Tim Birkhead
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Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.
— Ken Goldberg
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While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of…
— Tim O'Reilly
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Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by…
— John Updike
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Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in…
— Raymond Moody
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In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics…
— Daniel Boulud
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I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
— Virgil
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The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
— George Lloyd
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What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
— Edward Bond
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But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not…
— Origen
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