All Quotes By Tag: Greek
“There are few things more mysterious than endings. I mean, for example, when did the Greek gods end, exactly? Was there a day when Zeus waved magisterially down from Olympus and Aphrodite and her lover Ares, and her crippled husband Hephaestus ) I always felt sorry for him), and all the rest got rolled up like a worn-out carpet?”
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“Mega biblion, mega kakon (Big book, big evil)”
“Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·”
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“ΕπιθυμίεςΣαν σώματα ωραία νεκρών που δεν εγέρασανκαι τάκλεισαν, με δάκρυα, σε μαυσωλείο λαμπρό,με ρόδα στο κεφάλι και στα πόδια γιασεμιά –έτσ’ η επιθυμίες μοιάζουν που επέρασανχωρίς να εκπληρωθούν· χωρίς ν’ αξιωθεί καμιάτης ηδονής μια νύχτα, ή ένα πρωϊ της φεγγερό.”Desires”Like beautiful bodies of the dead who had not grown oldand they shut them, with tears, in a brilliant mausoleum,with roses at the head and jasmine at the feet –this is what desires resemble that have passedwithout fulfillment; without any of them having achieveda night of sensual delight, or a morning of brightness.”
“That is — your friend?” “Philtatos,” Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
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“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
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“And then, whatever you yearn for may indeed become a weakness or an open wound… if you make it the only standard by which you live your life.”
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“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”
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“She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me.”Be careful seaweed brain.” She said putting on her invisible cap and disappearing.I probably would have sat there all day, trying to remember my name, but then the sea demons came.”
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“People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat.”
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“if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like”
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“Call no man happy until he is dead.”
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“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
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“Don’t feel bad, I’m usually about to die.”
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