Executioners Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers…

— Benjamin Disraeli

We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

— Christine Downing

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The moments of refinement conceal a death-principle: nothing is more fragile than subtlety. The abuse of it leads to the catechisms, an end to…

— Emil Cioran

We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.

— Oliver Stone

“Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part of us,…

— Louis de Bernières

From one learn all. I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

— Virgil

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons…

— Joseph Addison

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

— Anne Bradstreet

Lets dedicate ourselves to what the ancient greeks wrote so many years ago, to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life…

— Anonymous

“If my body is a Temple, then The Greeks and Romans ransacked it years ago”

— josh stern

“The Greeks would, as it were, devote festivals to all their passions and evil natural inclinations… they took these human, all too human aspects…

— Friedrich Nietzsche