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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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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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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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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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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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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greeks said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.
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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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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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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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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Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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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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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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