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eaglecap
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Topic: The Hellenic quote of the week. Posted: 23-Jun-2005 at 16:15 |
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Phallanx
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Posted: 23-Jun-2005 at 20:59 |
"But if cattle or lions had hands, so as to paint with their hands and
produce works of art as men do, they would paint their gods and give
them bodies in form like their own, horses like horses, cattle like
cattle."
Xenophanes
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To the gods we mortals are all ignorant.Those old traditions from our ancestors, the ones we've had as long as time itself, no argument will ever overthrow, in spite of subtleties sharp minds invent.
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mausefalle
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Posted: 25-Jun-2005 at 21:02 |
"When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man."
"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."
"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."
"The mob is the mother of tyrants"
"I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals"
"Calumny is only the noise of madmen."
--Diogenes of Sinope (the Cynic), 412-323 BC
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Spartakus
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Posted: 27-Jun-2005 at 07:14 |
"I came here saven and I will leave with a beard"
A Hellen pensioner waiting to get his pension.
*edited by Yiannis, so that it makes sense grammaticaly*
Edited by Yiannis
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "
--- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996)
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Perseas
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Posted: 30-Jun-2005 at 19:52 |
The god of war hates those who hesitate
Euripedes
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A mathematician is a person who thinks that if there are supposed to be three people in a room, but five come out, then two more must enter the room in order for it to be empty.
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Spartakus
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Posted: 01-Jul-2005 at 04:31 |
Originally posted by Spartakus
"I came here saven and I will leave with a beard"
A Hellen pensioner waiting to get his pension.
*edited by Yiannis, so that it makes sense grammaticaly* |
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "
--- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996)
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