Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing… - Gilbert Murray
The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against an enemy. It is only man who calls killing…
- Gilbert Murray
A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beat… - Gilbert Murray
A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beat…
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionar… - Gilbert Murray
Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionar…
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination… - Gilbert Murray
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination…
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history. - Gilbert Murray
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written… - Gilbert Murray
Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written…
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never s… - Gilbert Murray
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never s…
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. - Gilbert Murray
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dan… - Gilbert Murray
Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dan…
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