{"quotes":[{"text":"If being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like.","author":"Zeno of Citium","tags":["determinism","elea","eleatic","greek","hinduism","metaphysics","philosophy","vedanta","zeno"],"id":8701,"author_id":"Zeno+of+Citium"},{"text":"Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·.","author":"Constantinos P. Cavafis","tags":["greek","poetry"],"id":8954,"author_id":"Constantinos+P.+Cavafis"},{"text":"Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table looked at him.'What the hell, Ronan?' said Adam.'It's hard to imagine,' Gansey mused, 'how this evidently successful classical education never seems to make it into your school papers.''They never ask the right questions,' Ronan replied.","author":"Maggie Stiefvater","tags":["blue","education","friendship","greek","humor"],"id":20434,"author_id":"Maggie+Stiefvater"},{"text":"The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth — Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.","author":"Joseph McCabe","tags":["babylonian","christ","copy","egyptian","forgery","gospels","greek","hindu","jesus","jesus-christ","jewish","morality","old-testament","persian","pharisees","plagiarize","sentiments"],"id":28127,"author_id":"Joseph+McCabe"},{"text":"...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.","author":"Virgil","tags":["aeneid","greek","greek-mythology","mythology"],"id":29979,"author_id":"Virgil"},{"text":"White IrisThe iris danced acrossthe ancient Grecian skiesgliding with her embossedsatiny milken sides ...","author":"Muse","tags":["beauty","character","conceptual","confidence","fantasy","flower","grecian","greek","growth","harp","heaven","historical","inner-beauty","iris","lyre","make-believe","mt-olympus","poem","poetry","prose","rainbow","self-worth","zeus"],"id":31079,"author_id":"Muse"},{"text":"Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["death","greek","humor","mythology","percy-jackson","sorry"],"id":34657,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"About five meters ahead, Nico was swinging his black sword with one hand, holding the scepter of Diocletian aloft with the other. He kept shouting orders at the legionnaires, but they paid him no atte.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["diocletian","frank-zhang","greek","heroes-of-olympus","house-of-hades","jason-grace","legion","legionnaires","nico-di-angelo","percy-jackson","rick-riordan","roman"],"id":38243,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"},{"text":"The whole of life but labours in the dark.For just as children tremble and fear allIn the viewless dark, so even we at timesDread in the light so many things that beNo whit more fearsome than what children feign,Shuddering, will be upon them in the dark.This terror then, this darkness of the mind,Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse,But only nature's aspect and her law.","author":"Titus Lucretius Carus","tags":["bc","greek","love","lucretius","nature","psychology","spirituality"],"id":48399,"author_id":"Titus+Lucretius+Carus"},{"text":"You’re probably wondering: why were Medusa’s kids a golden warrior and a winged horse? And how had they been stuck in Medusa’s body all those years?Heck, I dunno. I’m just telling you how it was. You want stuff to make sense, you’re in the wrong universe.","author":"Rick Riordan","tags":["fun","funny","greek","greek-heroes","medusa","percabeth","percy-jackson","percy-jackson-s-greek-heroes","pj","pjo","rick-riordan","universe"],"id":58009,"author_id":"Rick+Riordan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":87,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}