#greeks

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

#citizen #every #free #free state #greeks

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#bed #big #book #collections #goes

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#flourishing #greeks #grew #hollywood #most

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage. ↗

— Tony Randall

#because #beethoven #crime #everybody #going

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#enlightenment #great #greeks #humanism #ideas

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#i #known #state #uncertainty #unknown

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#because #certain #certain things #degree #greeks

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#ancient greeks #course #either #examined #fascinating

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. ↗

— Virgil

#even #fear #gifts #greeks #i

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots. ↗

— Melina Mercouri

#blood #england #english #fascism #friends