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Homer’s Odyssey in Ancient Greek 

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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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—  Xenophon
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I soon made up my mind about the poets. I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled them to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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— Socrates
Posted 9 years ago
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A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dead we have lost
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— Euripides
Posted 9 years ago
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The good ones are those who are content to dream what the wicked actually practice.
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— Plato
Posted 9 years ago
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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— Plato (via lithiumeyes13)
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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— Plato (via anamanao)
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Poverty is the mother of revolution and crime.
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— Aristotle 
Posted 9 years ago
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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— Plato
Posted 9 years ago
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
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— Greek Proverb
Posted 9 years ago
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