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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.
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... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
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Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.
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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)
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Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
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Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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