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Edith Hamilton (August 12, 1867 – May 31, 1963) was an American educator and internationally-known author who was one of the most renowned classicist of her era.[citation needed] A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she also studied in Germany at the University of Leipzig and the University of Munich. Hamilton began her career as an educator and head of the Bryn Mawr School, a private college preparatory school for girls in Baltimore, Maryland; however, Hamilton is best known for her essays and best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.

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There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

Indication, People, Play, Plays, Theater

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. . . . Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.

Dead, Foe, Giving, Ideas, Religion, Way

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

Suffering, Events, Intense, Greater, Pleasure

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. . . . The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

Choices, Freedom, Law, Men, Nothing

Civilization. . . is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.

Art, Civilization, Exists, Love, Reached

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

Explain, Men, Saw, Saws, Science, Trying

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

People, Quality, Real, Textbook, Writing, Writings

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

Cured, Educated, Mad, Madman, Running, Teaching

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

Exaltation, Pain, Poet, Tragedy, Writing

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Art, Expression, Solution, World

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Athens, Free, Freedom, Libertarian Party, Responsibility

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

Loose, Odds, Planets, Sets, Thinker

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

Generation, Generations, Heterodoxy, Next, Orthodoxy

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Facts, Literature, Mind, Withdraws

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

Far Away, Life, Love, Outraged, Ruined, Ruined Life

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

Country, Die, Peace, Sweet

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

Conservative, Formalism, Religion, Temper, Tends

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

Greek, Mind, Excellence, Creation, Spirit, Equilibrium

The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. " The Greeks said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Ancient, Greek, Mind, Priest, Thought, Use

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

Faults, Good, Naught, Wicked, Worth

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