Ancient Greeks

Famous quotes containing the words ancient and/or greeks:

    “In ancient times—’twas no great loss—
    They hung the thief upon the cross:
    But now, alas!—I say’t with grief—
    They hang the cross upon the thief.”
    —Anonymous. “On a Nomination to the Legion of Honour,” from Aubrey Stewart’s English Epigrams and Epitaphs (1897)

    “We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)