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Love cannot live where there is no trust.
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relationships
trust
love
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It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought--that is to be educated.
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Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)
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Edith Hamilton |
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The mind knows only what lies near the heart.
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mind
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Edith Hamilton |
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The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
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inspirational
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a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.
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persephone
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Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)
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Edith Hamilton |
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None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
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good
wicked
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Edith Hamilton |
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Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
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Edith Hamilton |
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He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek.
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Edith Hamilton |
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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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thoughts
secret
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Edith Hamilton |
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He was there beside her; yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
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Edith Hamilton |
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For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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Edith Hamilton |
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One good thing, however, was there - Hope. It was the only good thing the casket had held among the many evils, and it remains to this day mankind's sole comfort in misfortune.
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Edith Hamilton |
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Egypt is a fertile valley of rich river soil, low-lying, warm, monotonous, a slow-flowing river, and beyond the limitless desert. Greece is a country of sparse fertility and keen, cold winters, all hills and mountains sharp cut in stone, where strong men must work hard to get their bread. And while Egypt submitted and suffered and turned her face toward death, Greece resisted and rejoiced and turned full-face to life. For somewhere among th..
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Edith Hamilton |
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When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere somehow, men must find refuge. Then they fly from the terror without to the citadel within, which famine and pestilence and fire and sword cannot shake. What Goethe calls the inner universe, can live by its own laws, create its own security, be sufficient unto itself, when once reality is denied to the turmoil of the world without.
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Edith Hamilton |
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A man without fear cannot be a slave.
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manipulation
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Edith Hamilton |
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Convention (is) so often a mask for injustice.
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education
conventional-wisdom
conformity
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Edith Hamilton |
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They yoked themselves to a car and drew her all the long way through dust and heat. Everyone admired their filial piety when they arrived and the proud and happy mother standing before the statue prayed that Hera would reward them by giving them the best gift in her power. As she finished her prayer the two lads sank to the ground. They were smiling and they looked as if they were peacefully asleep but they were dead. (Biton and Cleobis)
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myth
cleobis
hera
mythology
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Edith Hamilton |
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Kiss me yet once again, the last, long kiss, Until I draw your soul within my lips And drink down all your love.
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Edith Hamilton |
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This idea the Greeks had of him is best summed up not by a poet, but by a philosopher, Plato: "Love--Eros--makes his home in men's hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness."
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Edith Hamilton |
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The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.
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perspective
perception
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Edith Hamilton |
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An ancient writer says of Homer that he touched nothing without somehow honoring and glorifying it.
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writing
rhetoric
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Edith Hamilton |
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Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.
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self-discipline
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Edith Hamilton |
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It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more value than the sparrows.
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Edith Hamilton |
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We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.
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Edith Hamilton |
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To the Greeks, the word "character" first referred to the stamp upon a coin. By extension, man was the coin, and the character trait was the stamp imprinted upon him. To them, that trait, for example bravery, was a share of something all mankind had, rather than means of distinguishing one from the whole."
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Edith Hamilton |
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It is the men of this land who are bloodthirsty and they lay their own guilt on the gods.
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Edith Hamilton |
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The Greeks were the first people in the world to play, and they played on a great scale. All over Greece there were games, all sorts of games; athletic contests of every description: races--horse-, boat-, foot-, torch-races; contests in music, where one side out-sung the other; in dancing--on greased skins sometimes to display a nice skill of foot and balance of body; games where men leaped in and out of flying chariots; games so many one g..
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