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Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

—Euripides

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As you set out on your journey to Ithaca,pray that your journey be a long one,filled with adventure, filled with discovery.Laestrygonians and Cyclopes,the angry Poseidon–do not fear them:you’ll never find such things on your wayunless...

—Barry B. Powell

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I’ve been waiting for you,” he murmured.Aphrodite slowly walked across the balcony, as her mind raced, trying to think of the perfect thing to say in return. All of a sudden a thought came to...

—Jennifer Paquette

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I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

—Paul J.

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Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)

—Horace

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Call no man happy until he is dead.

—Solon

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You’re the girl that I have been wanting. You’re the girl that I could see myself with forever. And most importantly, you’re the girl that I’ve fallen in love with.

—M.S. Watson

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It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

—Rick Riordan

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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

—Aristotle

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What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality and truthfulness of the Hindus evidently has been very low. Such seeds of...

—Megasthenes

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She wore an A-line bridal gown with a V-shaped neckline while Apollo playing Bach’s Air on the G string.

—Tai

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I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

—George Papandreou

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Don’t feel bad, I’m usually about to die.

—Rick Riordan

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If you look up ‘atheism’ in the dictionary, you will probably find it defined as the belief that there is no God. Certainly many people understand atheism in this way. Yet many atheists do not,...

—Michael Martin

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But the queen–too long she has suffered the pain of love,hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood,consumed by the fire buried in her heart. […]His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and...

—Virgil

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The author meant it as a joke, Mr. Langdon. Ionic means containing ions—electrically charged particles. Most objects contain them.

—Dan Brown

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One of the most interesting histories of what comes of rejecting science we may see in Islam, which in the beginning received, accepted, and even developed the classical legacy. For some five or six rich...

—Joseph Campbell

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It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by the decay and disruption of the Roman Empire, the consequent disorganisation of society,...

—Thomas Henry

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I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people.

—George Papandreou

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I heard the voice of that bird, son of Polypas, whose piercing outcryand whose arrival announces to men the season when fieldsare plowed, and the voice of her broke the heart that darkens within me,since...

—Theognis

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It was generally believed, said Theophilus, that Orpheus learned his music from the birds. His small voice, piping after theirs, filled with all the secret stories of the earth.

—Ann Wroe

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In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

—Ovid

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The signs of the old flame, I know them well.I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me downor the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,the pale, glimmering shades...

—Virgil

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Seaside Studies,” will perceive that science excites poetry rather than extinguishes it. And whoever will contemplate the life of Goethe will see that the poet and the man of science can co-exist in equal activity....

—Hugh Miller

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Alexander the Great slept with ‘The Iliad’ beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

—Roman Payne

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There are few things more mysterious than endings. I mean, for example, when did the Greek gods end, exactly? Was there a day when Zeus waved magisterially down from Olympus and Aphrodite and her lover...

—Salley Vickers

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It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments.

—George Papandreou

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She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.”Be careful seaweed brain.” She said putting on her invisible cap and...

—Rick Riordan

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Mega biblion, mega kakon (Big book, big evil)

—Callimachus

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When Art struggles, it succeeds; when revelling in its own successes, it as singularly fails.

—Owen Jones

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the dank night is sweeping down from the skyand the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

—Virgil

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As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness...

—Diogenes Laërtius

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V geometrickém světě, jehož objev byl umožněn onou pozoruhodnou schopností proniknout skrze čtverec nakreslený v písku ke čtverci geometrickému, nalezla řecká antika místo, v němž se nachází pravda v ničím nezastřené podobě.

—Petr Vopěnka

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I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know...

—Thomas Paine

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I’m Greek, and we’re conspiratorial by nature.

—George Tenet

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The wine god sighed. ‘Oh Hades if I know. But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete...

—Rick Riordan

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At morn we buried Melanippus; as the sun set the maiden Basilo died by her own hand, as she could not endure to lay her brother on the pyre and live; and the house beheld...

—Allimachus and Lycophron CXLII

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To attempt to build up theories of art, or to form a new style, would be an act of supreme folly. It would be at once to reject the experiences and accumulated knowledge of thousands...

—Owen Jones

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..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the seaand what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl…

—Virgil

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When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied.

—Herophilus

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Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one’s knowing: the obscurity of the subject...

—Protagoras

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No, it’s all Greek to me.

—Jarod Kintz

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Very good, Jason Grace,” Notus said. “You are a son of Jupiter, yet you have chosen your own path- as all the greatest demigods have done before you. You cannot control your parentage, but you...

—Rick Riordan

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Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

—Aeschylus

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I made ‘Going Greek’, which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000.

—Justin Zackham

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…She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

—Virgil

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…Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild...

—Hesiod

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His eyes danced like a teenager. “Eat anyone alive today?” her father joked.Ruby returned his wicked grin and sauntered into the living room. “Not today, but tomorrow’s another day.

—Stephanie Greenhalgh

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Myth, mist, and mystery all add to the illusion of love. If you need me I’ll be by the fog machine wearing a tunic and writing an epic poem in Greek.

—Jarod Kintz

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Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I’m out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!

—Rick Riordan

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