Ancient Greeks

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    All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and ... you don’t win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
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    The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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