Lechery Quote by John Cowper Powys

“I thought of Pericles' speech to the families of the Athenian war dead, in which he said, "What you leave behind is not what…

— Eric Greitens

The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of science was…

— Lord Acton

“Aristotle affirms that philosophy did not pass from Greece to Gaul, that is to the Druids, but was received from them.”

— John Daniel

I've never been a classic Gaulist! Not a Gaulist at all.

— Helmut Schmidt

“Oh, can these men love, my Clodius? Scarcely even with the senses. How rarely a Roman has a heart! He is but the mechanism…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“that there was no doubt that the Helvetii were the most powerful of the whole of Gaul;”

— Julius Caesar

“No philosophy is cheaper or more vulgar than that which traces all history to diversities of ethnological type and blend, and is ever presenting…

— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

“It is only the man who carries into his pursuits that great quality which Lucan ascribes to Caesar, Nescia virtus stare loco [his energy…

— Brett McKay

“It is the noble races that have left behind them the concept 'barbarian' wherever they have gone; even their highest culture betrays a consciousness…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“With a perversity of judgement, which must be attributed to his not having by Nature a very strong head, the Graces, the Spirit, the…

— Jane Austen

“Homeric Greece and everything that philosophy after Plato stood for was, however superficially cordial and continuous, in fact deeply antagonistic, if often at the…

— Walter J. Ong

“An inchoate mass of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise, he risked terminal resentment,…

— Claire Messud