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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

People aren't universally heroic.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

Since the Greek myths, the greatest stories are premised on the idea of, 'A stranger arrives.'

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.