Quotes about Ancient greek

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* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienc — Pindar
I'd rather have a heart of goldThan all the treasure of the world. — Ana Claudia Antunes, Memoirs of An Amazon
Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, also. Sappho was a perf — Alexander Chee, Edinburgh
The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind o — Hermann Weyl
Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' pr — Roman Payne
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof? — Aristophanes, The Knights
Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, s — Andrew Lang, The Yellow Fairy Book
They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books wit — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
The Greeks who rhapsodized about democracy in their rhetoric rarely created democratic institutions. A few cities such a — Jack Weatherford, Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by t — Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century