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Classical antiquity9 quotes
There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man. — Sophocles · 441 BCMy tongue swore, but my mind's unsworn. — Euripides · 428 BCThe happiest life consists in ignorance. — Sophocles · 442 BCJustice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. — Aeschylus · 458 BCNeither anarchy nor tyranny—this I counsel my citizens to support and respect, and not to drive fear wholly out of the city. For who among mortals, if he fears nothing, is righteous? — Aeschylus · 458 BCWho told them
that they were dead. — AeschylusAll 9 quotes →Age of Enlightenment1 quote
The more foreigners I saw, the more I loved my homeland. — Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy · 1765