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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
Ferdinand de Saussure
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
Johannes Stark
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
Marilyn French
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
Jorge Luis Borges
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks.
Edward Bond
Thomas Bulfinch 
Stella Adler 
Edward Bond 
Emil Nolde 
Isabelle Huppert 
Donald Kagan 
Marion Zimmer Bradley 
Andrew Wiles 
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
Ferdinand de Saussure 
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The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
Johannes Stark
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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
Marilyn French
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I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson
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It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
Miriam Beard
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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