Ancient Quote by Gilbert Murray Download Open image “Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.” — Gilbert Murray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Ancient greek Books Easy Great Greek Greek Literature Literature Literature Easy Reading Works Ancient
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“You could, if so inclined, read more Greek texts in the original Greek than the most prestigious Greek nobleman of classical times.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“If you're looking for fine art or literature, you might want to read some stuff written by the Greeks. Because to create true fine… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There have always been literate ignoramuses who have read too widely and not well. The Greeks had a name for such a mixture of… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy.… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
“Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for sensual pleasures, nothing for comfort or praise or promotion, but is simply determined… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
“They are all dead now, Diocletian and Ignatius, Cyril and Hypatia, Julian and Basil, Athanasius and Arîus: every party has yielded up its persecutors… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
