Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.Gilbert Murray
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.
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It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.
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The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
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