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Athens Quotes - Page 2

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

Mark Zupan
Sports, People, Athens

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

Jostein Gaarder
Done, Athens, Leniency

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

George Will
Baseball, Athens, Enjoy
George F. Will (1999). “Bunts”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

Aristophanes
Law, Athens, Idiot

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

Alexander Pope
Tyrants, Lust, Athens
Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.44

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