classical antiquity

Plato

Philosophy

Platonism

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

🇺🇸Moses I. Finley

Economics

1912–1986

"In the western world today everyone is a democrat."

Theodor Mommsen

Science

1817–1903

"Revolutions have nowhere ended, and least of all in ROme, without demanding a certain number of victims, who under forms more or less borrowed from justice atone fro the fault of defeat as though it were a crime."

🇬🇷Stobaeus

Literature

430–470

"Pythagoras being asked how a man ought to conduct himself towards his country, when it had acted iniquitously with respect to him, replied, as to a mother."

🇦🇹Ernst Badian

Education

1925–2011

"Philip II, at least from the time of his victory over Phocis, Athens, and their allies in 346, prepared to proclaim himself the champion of a United Greece against the barbarians."

Benjamin Jowett

classical antiquity

1817–1893

"Learn just enough of the subject [metaphysics] to enable your mind to get rid of it."

Edward Gibbon

Literature

1737–1794

"The primitive Church, which I have treated with some freedom, was itself at that time, an innovation, and I was attached to the old Pagan establishment."