Outline of Classical Studies - General Classical Studies Concepts

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“In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.”
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“Even if one studies to an old age, one will never finish learning.”
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“Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.”
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