Ancient Greeks

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    You are our surety to immortal life,
    God’s hatred of the universal stain—
    The heritage, O Fear, of ancient strife
    Compounded with the tissue of the vein.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

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