Quotes about Greece

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…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man — Homer, The Iliad
Holy mother!""Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference."-Hephaetus — Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw D — Diogenes of Sinope
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it — Homer, The Iliad
If you are a dreamer, come in,If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...If you'r — Shel Silverstein
Why should I fear death?If I am, then death is not.If Death is, then I am not.Why should I fear that which can only exis — Epicurus
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
Let him submit to me! Only the god of death is so relentless, Death submits to no one—so mortals hate him most of all th — Homer, The Iliad
But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well—for your own son’s death. Never again — Homer, The Iliad
ΕπιθυμίεςΣαν σώματα ωραία νεκρών που δεν εγέρασανκαι τάκλεισαν, με δάκρυα, σε μαυσωλείο λαμπρό,με ρόδα στο κεφάλι και στ — Constantinos P. Cavafis, Before Time Could Change Them: The Complete Poems
… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder. — Yiannis Ritsos, The Fourth Dimension
The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supporte — Al-Mas'udi, From the Meadows of Gold
The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of — Thomas Henry Huxley, Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays
1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civ — Christopher Hitchens
And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth ride — Aeschylus, Agamemnon
I'd rather have a heart of goldThan all the treasure of the world. — Ana Claudia Antunes, Memoirs of An Amazon
I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality o — Edith Hamilton
I had allowed my body to take whatever path it wished. The fact that it was guiding me and not I it gave me great pleasu — N. Kazantzakis
I had allowed my body to take whatever path it wished. The fact that it was guiding me and not I it gave me great pleasu — N. Kazantzakis