"The life and liberty and property and happiness……" — Gilbert Murray
"The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of."
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12 Quotes by Gilbert Murray
Gilbert Murray has 12 quotes on this site.
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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a…
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It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing…
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A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and…
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The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a…
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Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions…
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Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation…
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Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do…
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Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
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The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of…
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Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think,…
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