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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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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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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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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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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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sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
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One form of religion perpetually gives way to another if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.
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They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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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 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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