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When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge....
poem by Constantine Petrou Cavafy, 1911
A LIGHT! a light! rise up, be swift;
I seize, I worship, and I lift
The bridal torches' festal ray...
poem by Euripides
UP and lead the dance of Fate!
Lift the song that mortals hate!
Tell what rights are ours on earth...
poem by Aeschylus
THE whole wide ether is the eagle's way:
The whole earth is a brave man's fatherland.

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poem by Euripides
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers....
quote by Plato
Like an ant who uneasily acquires knowledge

Under His knowledge's light many mainlands are bright...
poem by Akbar Aliev
LOVE, thou art victor in fight: thou mak'st all things afraid;
Thou couchest thee softly at night o...
poem by Sophocles
My body is like
A field wasted by winter.
If only
I, like the field burnt-over,
Awaited the re...
poem by Lady Ise
THE night was passing, and the Grecian host
By no means sought to issue forth unseen.
But when ind...
poem by Aeschylus
He said that he had hurt himself on a wall or that he had fallen.
But there was probably another re...
poem by Constantine P. Cavafy (1919)
STRANGE is it that the godless, who have sprung
From evil-doers, should fare prosperously,
While g...
poem by Sophocles
ONE with eyes the fairest
Cometh from his dwelling,
Some one loves thee, rarest,
Bright beyond my...
poem by Euripides
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet....
quote by Plato
MERRILY rose the bridal strain,
With the pipe of reed and the wild harp ringing,
With the Libyan f...
poem by Euripides
NOW long and long from wintry Strymon blew
The weary, hungry, anchor-straining blasts,
The winds t...
poem by Aeschylus
Courage is knowing what not to fear....
quote by Plato
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry....
quote by Nikos Kazantzakis
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free....
quote by Nikos Kazantzakis
Everything in this world has a hidden meaning....
quote by Nikos Kazantzakis
The fates have given mankind a patient soul....
quote by Homer, The Iliad
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love....
quote by Homer, The Iliad
I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another....
quote by Homer
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can....
quote by Nikos Kazantzakis
If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift....
quote by Homer, The Iliad
A friend to all is a friend to none....
quote by Aristotle
Nothing pleases me....
quote by El Greco
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to ...
quote by Homer
The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council....
quote by Homer, The Iliad
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort o...
quote by Plato
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality....
quote by Nikos Kazantzakis
Bad men are full of repentance....
quote by Aristotle
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appe...
quote by Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul....
quote by Socrates
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fir...
quote by Socrates
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of....
quote by Socrates
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a p...
quote by Socrates
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others....
quote by Socrates
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