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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Karl Marx

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

Curt Flood

Famous Greek Authors

Edmund Waller

John Thorn

James Cronin

William Shakespeare

Chita Rivera

Gilbert Murray

Henry A. Kissinger

John Acton

Nana Mouskouri

Brendan Fraser

Theodore White

Bo Bennett

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All Greek Quotes

For my part, it was Greek to me.

William Shakespeare

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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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My boyhood saw Greek islands floating over Harvard Square.

Horace Gregory

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For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series.

Frank Bruno

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If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

John Eaton

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The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Robert Welch

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It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

James Loeb

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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Diogenes

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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Immanuel Kant

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There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

Julius Streicher

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