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  • Alcuin of York At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
    ― Alcuin of York
    English scholar, clergyman and poet
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  • Benjamin Disraeli 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.
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Menander of Athens He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
    ― Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Brendan Myers 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.
    ― Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Alexander the Great How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
    ― Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Menander of Athens It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
    ― Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Menander of Athens Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
    ― Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Menander of Athens Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
    ― Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Menander of Athens No just person ever became quickly rich.
    ― Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Menander of Athens The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.
    ― Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Menander of Athens The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
    ― Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Menander of Athens We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
    ― Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Edith Hamilton When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
    ― Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Camille Paglia 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.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    ― Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Edgar Allan Poe 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.
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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