The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid..

I was very aware of being younger than everybody on set..

The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselv….

You can never love me..

I'm the one who's always been there for you... not him!.

There is nothing god cannot do..

The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There's storge, which is family love. That's not us. There….

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks..

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale..

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return..

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans..

Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may b….

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns..

Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite nicely..

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love.

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 a….

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a G….

The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into….

The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be..

I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek..

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form..