GREECE

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1. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!
   Where burning Sappho loved and sung. . . .
   Eternal summer gilds them yet,
   But all, except their sun, is set.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

2. Put not thy faith in any Greek.—EURIPIDES, Iphigenia in Tauris
   

3. The Attic Greek culture which drew material inspiration from the surplus wealth created by slave labor in the silver mines was scientifically sterile, because it was the culture of a leisured class divorced from contact with the instruments of production.—LANCELOT HOGBEN, Dangerous Thoughts
   

4. When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.—NATHANIEL LEE, Alexander the Great
   

5. Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
   And eloquence.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

6. I think that a knowledge of Greek thought and life, and of the arts in which the Greeks expressed their thought and sentiment, essential to high culture. A man may know everything else, but without this knowledge he remains ignorant of the best intellectual and moral achievements of his own race.—CHARLES E. NORTON
   

7. It is perhaps the highest distinction of the Greeks that they recognized the indissoluble connection of beauty and goodness.—CHARLES E. NORTON
   

8. When we compare Austable's Historia Animalium of the fourth century B. C. with the stupendous volumes of research of the present day . . . we realize the wide contrast and wonder the more that the Greeks, with their comparatively meagre and limited knowledge, came so near the truth.—HENRY F. OSBORN, From the Greeks to Darwin
   

9. To the glory that was Greece,
   And the grandeur that was Rome.—POE, To Helen
   

10. But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
    

11. I fear the Greeks, even when bringing gifts.—VERGIL, Aeneid