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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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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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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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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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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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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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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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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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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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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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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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