Famous quotes containing the words ancient and/or greeks:
“The mouth of the drowned dog. After long rain the land
Was sodden as the bed of an ancient lake,
Treed with iron and birdless.”
—Ted Hughes (b. 1930)
“We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
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