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Greeks
«You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt»
Author: Harold Macmillan
| About:
America and Americans,
Country,
People,
Society
| Keywords:
bustle, bustles, bustling, Greeks, Romans, The Americans, the Greeks, the Romans, unspoiled, vigorous
«Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.»
Author: Marilyn French
(Writer)
| Keywords:
Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, delusion, Greeks, lucid, self-destruction, taking over
«We (Greeks) are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness»
«Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
boundaries, center, deadly, Greeks, Greek a, impulse, the Greeks