Ancient Greeks

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    “There is an ancient saying that, “Hard is the knowledge of the good.””
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

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