Ancient greece Quote by Tyrtaeus

“In ancient Greece, the word for “cook,” “butcher,” and “priest” was the same—mageiros—and the word shares an etymological root with “magic.”

— Michael Pollan

“I tell you, because military training is not publicly recognised by the state, you must not make that an excuse for being a whit…

— Xenophon Memorabilia. 371BC Marchant translation

“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”

— S.F. Chandler

“Some gay soldiers and officers, particularly those with a college education, carried with them a mythology, developed from reading the classics and in conversations…

— Allan Bérubé

“In ancient Greece, adolescence was a time when young men left their biological families to become the lovers of adult men. Sexuality was but…

— Barry D. Adam

“In ancient Greece more than one royal house was guilty of crime which became the stuff of tragedy: now Rome was to follow the…

— Livy

“OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse- whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out…

— Sophocles

“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.”

— Douglas Wilson

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece,…

— Michel Onfray

“For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time of Homer…

— Carl Sagan

“I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue,…

— Blaise Pascal

“OEDIPUS: O, O, O, they will all come, all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me look upon you no more after…

— Sophocles