Ancient Greeks

Famous quotes containing the words ancient and/or greeks:

    ““Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,
    Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
    Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
    Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.””
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

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