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Edith Hamilton

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

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"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

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"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

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"When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos."

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

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"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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"None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry."

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"To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated."

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"A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can."

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"Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed."

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

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"The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers."

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"The fullness of life is in the hazards of life."

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