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🇺🇸Allan Bloom

Philosophy

1930–1992

"Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing—in addition to caring for man’s well-being—they were providing rights for themselves."

"The Angel of Death is the invisible Angel of Life."

"Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language."

"The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify."

"The violence of the state, to be justified, must be transubstantiated in its essence into peaceful incantation, yet at the same time, to be effective, it must retain the external accidents of violence."

"qualities -those of good soldiers but bad citizens - explain the historical fact, that the celts have shaken states everywhere,but founded none."

"The toponyms of the Macedonian homeland are the most significant. Nearly all of them are Greek."

"To study the art of living is to engage in one of its forms."

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🇬🇧Thomas Little Heath

Mathematics

1861–1940

"Eudoxus was perhaps the greatest of all Archimedes's predecessors, and it is his achievements, especially the discovery of the method of exhaustion, which interest us in connexion with Archimedes."

"In less than four years he had transformed Macedonia from a backward and primitive kingdom to one of the most powerful states in the Greek world."

"Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder."

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🇬🇧Alexander Fraser Tytler

Law

1747–1813

"An ordinary translator sinks under the energy of his original: the man of genius frequently rises above it."

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🇬🇧Jane Ellen Harrison

"We know now that cultures are not oral or literate; rather they employ a menu or spectrum of communicative strategies, some of them associated with texts, some with voices, and some with both."

"No man, and only one hero, had been called invincible before him, and then only by a poet, but the hero was Heracles, ancestor of the Macedonian kings."

"Often, when thinking about Socrates , we need to remember that he is reacting to the Presocratics, but the reverse is never true."

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🇬🇧Martin Joseph Routh

Literature

1755–1854

"But I know, my friends, that you may object to me what St. Irenaeus says."

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🇺🇸Victor Davis Hanson

Politics

b. 1953

"War itself is not a mere science but a more fickle sort of thing, often subject to fate or chance, being an entirely human enterprise..."

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Frederic William Farrar

"Our own tung should be written cleane and pure, vnmixt and vnmangled with borrowing of other tunges."

"The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes."

"The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the Commonwealth."

"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."

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