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Love cannot live where there is no trust.

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Edith Hamilton Cupid Love Mythology Relationships Trust

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

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Edith Hamilton Antiquity Classicism Courage Greatness Greece Soul

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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Edith Hamilton History Inspirational

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

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Edith Hamilton Heart Mind

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

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Edith Hamilton Emotion Passion

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

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Edith Hamilton Creativity Criticism Cynicism Leadership Optimism Pessimism

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

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Edith Hamilton Communication Compassion Creativity Prophecy

Euripides questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

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Edith Hamilton Intovert Learning Pride Reading

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

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Edith Hamilton Idea Secret Thoughts

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

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Edith Hamilton Risk Suffering

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.

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Edith Hamilton Depravity Discipleship Thinking

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

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Edith Hamilton Fault Good Wicked

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

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Edith Hamilton Gratitude Perception Perspective

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

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Edith Hamilton Censorship Open Mindedness Pride

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

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Edith Hamilton Anxiety Manipulation

It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories are...

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Edith Hamilton Creation Facts Fantasy Mythology Philosophy

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 Democracy

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

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Edith Hamilton Theology

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

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Edith Hamilton Discipleship Self Discipline

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

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Edith Hamilton Discipleship Testimony

Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium, when Alcibiades challenged him to drink two quarts of wine, could have done so or not as he chose, but the diners-out of Horace's day had no such freedom. He speaks often of the master of the drinking, who was always appointed to dictate how much each man was to drink. Very many unseemly dinner parties must have paved the way for that regulation. A Roman in his cups would've been hard to handle, surly, quarrelsome, dangerous. No doubt there had been banquets without number which had ended in fights, broken furniture, injuries, deaths. Pass a law then, the invariable Roman remedy, to keep drunkenness within bounds. Of course it worked both ways: everybody was obliged to empty the same number of glasses and the temperate man had to drink a great deal more than he wanted, but whenever laws are brought in to regulate the majority who have not abused their liberty for the sake of the minority who have, just such results come to pass. Indeed, any attempt to establish a uniform average in that stubbornly individual phenomenon, human nature, will have only one result that can be foretold with certainty: it will press hardest on the best.

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Edith Hamilton Alcibiades Decadence Drinking Drunkenness Equality Horace Managerial Elite Managerial State Prohibition Regulations Roman Life Rome Symposium

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 Unity

A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.

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Edith Hamilton Logic Logos

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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Edith Hamilton Biton Cleobis Hera Myth Mythology

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

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Edith Hamilton Faith Unity

When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.

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Edith Hamilton Government Rule

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

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Edith Hamilton Together Man Animal

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

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Edith Hamilton Belief Active Passive
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