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“because the Greeks existed among things and did not position the world in relation to themselves, they could not be subiectum. They did not…

— Barbara Bolt

“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

“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

“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism, humanism, democracy—which…

— Caroline Alexander

“The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that…

— Socrates

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot…

— Edith Hamilton

“Heroism isn’t some mysterious inner virtue, the Greeks believed; it’s a collection of skills that every man and woman can master so that in…

— Christopher McDougall

“How persistent it is, this demand that our gods be perfect. The Greeks were much more reasonable about such things.”

— Frank Herbert

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

— Cato

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

— Anne Lamott

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our…

— Friedrich Schiller

“apparently there was no reason now why a man should not do as he pleased, so long as he remained within the law. A…

— Will Durant