21 quotes found
“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.”
“Call no man happy until he is dead.”
“It is not easy to soothe the immortal gods from their vengeance.”
“ , , , --' ' , ."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 j...”
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“Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged b...”
“It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.”
“If a Greek woman tells you to do something, you do it.”
“The difficulty of learning the dead languages does not arise from any superior abstruseness in the languages themselves, but in their being dead, and the pronunciation entirely lost. It would be th...”
“You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.”
“For the first few months I went round in a linguistic fog. Often I only realized what someone had said minutes or even days or weeks afterwards.”
“I heard the voice of that bird, son of Polypas, whose piercing outcryand whose arrival announces to men the season when fieldsare plowed, and the voice of her broke the heart that darkens within me...”
“And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.”
“Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?”
“Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware of this basic fact of mythology.”
“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...”
“Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·”
“…Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged ...”
