Famous quotes containing the words greeks and/or defeat:
“We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat ... the redeeming things are not “happiness and pleasure” but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)