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Pain is the most individualiz...

Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.

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... clear thinking is not the...

... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.

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Moderately wise each one shou...

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

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There are few efforts more co...

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

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Through Plato, Aristotle came...

Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

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Love and the Soul (for that i...

Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)

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..,No love cannot leave where...

..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton

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Freedom was born in Greece be...

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

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The temper of mind that sees ...

The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view.

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The fullness of life is in th...

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory.

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though the outside of human l...

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

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The easy way has never in the ...

The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

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To rejoice in life, to find th...

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit...

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Responsibility is the price ev...

Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.

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I came to the Greeks early, an...

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

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He was there beside her, yet s...

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

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Moderately wise each one shoul...

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

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The fundamental facts about th...

The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, 'Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.' The Greeks said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

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When the mind withdraws into i...

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

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The modern minds in each gener...

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

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