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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

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Melina Mercouri

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And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

Melina Mercouri

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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Aleister Crowley

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Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek.

Robert Fitzgerald

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We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

Penelope Lively

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I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

Chita Rivera

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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

Thomas Jefferson

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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Edmund Waller

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

John Acton

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The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

William Scott

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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

John Ruskin

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