418 Quotes About Classics

For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.

So does a whole world, with all of its greatness and littleness, lie in a twinkling star.

Prolaze vode, oblaci prolaze i dani ispod njih prolaze. Dolaze — prolaze. Provuku se plave sutonove sjenke, prokaplju mračci kroz prozore, provuku se, pritaje, pa ih nestane. Nestane sunca, boja nestane i dan se za danom ugasi i ode nekuda u daljine. Tamo su već prošli vjekovi, životi i godine.

I went away, dear Agnes, loving you. I stayed away, loving you. I returned home, loving you!

Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

I do not see how one who is an enemy of the gods can run fast enough away, nor where he can flee to escape, nor what darkness could cover him, nor how he could find a position strong enough for refuge. For all things in all places are subject to the gods, and the power of the gods extends equally over everything.

Nothing touches our lives but it is God Himself speaking. Do we discern His hand or only mere occurrence?

It was lovely in the nights and if we could only touch each other we were happy. Besides all the big times we had many small ways of making love and we tried putting thoughts in the other one's head while we were in different rooms. It seemed to work sometimes but that is probably because we were thinking the same thing anyway.