Edith Hamilton Quotes

Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

Besides Zeus on his throne, Justice has her seat.

Love cannot live where there is no trust.

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

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

A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

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

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

We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.

Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work

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

She was brave from excess of grief

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.