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- Menander of Athens: Greek dramati poet
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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.
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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
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It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.
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The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
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Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
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