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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

Edith Hamilton

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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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Classical Scholar
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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 comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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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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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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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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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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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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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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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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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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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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