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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
Edith Hamilton
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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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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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...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 easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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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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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.
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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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