146 Quotes by Edith Hamilton

Fairest of the deathless gods.This idea the Greeks had of him is best summed up not by a poet, but by a philosopher, Plato: "Love—Eros—makes his home in men's hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve of him their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

Fairest of the deathless gods.This idea the Greeks had of him is best summed up not by a poet, but by a philosopher,Plato: "Love—Eros—makes his home in men's hearts, but not in every heart, for wherethere is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it;force never comes near him. For all men serve of him their own free will. And he whomLove touches not walks in darkness.

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of the other side.

Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.

...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.

Seek to persuade the sea wave not to break.You will persuade me no more easily.

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.