“ There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The word philanthropy has its roots in the Greek language meaning "love for mankind." It was never meant to apply only to donors of thousands or millions of dollars. ”
- Arthur C. Frantzreb- Copy
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“ The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. ”
- Anne Germain De Stael- Copy
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“ The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
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“ The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ''Let no one be called happy till his death;'' to which I would add, ''Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.''. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you. ”
- Themistocles- Copy
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“ Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. ”
- Willem de Kooning- Copy
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“ Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. ”
- Theodore White- Copy
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“ I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. ”
- Billy Joel- Copy
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“ The Greeks had their gods and heroes. We have ours. What are they there for? ”
- Frank Miller- Copy
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“ Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. ”
- Vladimir Nabokov- Copy
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“ It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. ”
- Henry Kissinger- Copy
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“ Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from? ”
- Richard Hatch- Copy
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“ I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ”
- Heraclitus- Copy
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“ There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. ”
- Bo Bennett- Copy
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“ Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ W our civilization could be, if not promoted, at least better endured. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
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“ Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. ”
- Vladimir Lenin- Copy
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“ Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. ”
- Alice May Brock- Copy
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“ A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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