source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1961). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II: 1822-1826”, p.243, Harvard University Press

topic: Men, Conceited, May, Greece And Rome

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.10

topic: Lying, Men, Egypt, Encyclopedia, Greece And Rome

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Philosophy, Greek, Religion, Moral Philosophy, Epicurean

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

- Lord Byron

topic: Fall, Rome, World, Coliseum, Fall Of Rome

In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.

- John Walford

topic: Beauty, Mean, Eye, Ancient Greece, Greece And Rome

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

- Thomas Huxley

topic: Art, Teaching, Rome, Social Theory, Despicable

Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy.

- Dinesh D'Souza

source: Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

topic: Jobs, Rome, Leader, Servant Leadership, Ancient Greece

Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we failed to learn lessons which Ancient China, Greece and Rome learned too late - about day care and death houses for old folks? Do we without protest accept accelerating preschool and nursing home cultures which warn ominously that the earlier you institutionalize your child, the earlier he will institutionalize you!

- Raymond S. Moore

topic: Children, Home, School, Learning Lessons, Family Ties

English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite fresh and, in this sense, wild strain. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting Greece and Rome. Her wildness is a greenwood, her wild man a Robin Hood. There is plenty of genial love of Nature, but not so much of Nature herself. Her chronicles inform us when her wild animals, but not the wild man in her, became extinct.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays: Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, The Landlord, Walking, Sir Walter Raleigh, Paradise (to be) Regained, Herald of Freedom, A Plea for Captain John Brown, The Highland Light, Dark Ages…”, p.167, e-artnow

topic: Animal, Men, Lakes, Chaucer, Spenser

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Wise, Believe, Men, Dashing, Water Resources

But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious of any alterations in the moral of physical government of the world.

- Edward Gibbon

topic: Government, Rome, History, Greece And Rome

O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath the pines When the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the Sophist's schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Country, Stars, Home, Greece And Rome

The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has been chosen not only to continue the work assigned to Greece and Rome, but to accomplish a greater work than was assigned to either. In art, it will prove false to its mission if it do not rival Greece; and in science and philosophy, if it do not surpass it. In the State, in law, in jurisprudence, it must continue and surpass Rome.

- Orestes Brownson