Quotes on Greece And Rome

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our moral character. In ancient Greece and Rome, ethical choices about food were considered at least as significant as ethical choices about sex.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.