The Greek Way Quotes

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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

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A man without fear cannot be a slave.

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The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

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Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

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Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

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Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

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Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.

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Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

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The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

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An ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.

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A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.

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Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

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To the Greeks, the word "character" first referred to the stamp upon a coin. By extension, man was the coin, and the character trait was the stamp imprinted upon him. To them, that trait, for example bravery, was a share of something all mankind had,...

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