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Started by Fatal, Mar 23 2008 08:27 PM

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#26 Guest_Ali_*

Posted 24 March 2008 - 09:55 AM

QUOTE (The Golden Cheesepuff @ Mar 24 2008, 05:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

iMy personal favorites:

"The whole is more than the sum of the parts" - Aristotle
"And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once." - Homer
"You cannot direct the wind, but you can adjust the sail" - Unknown
"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read." - Publius Syrus (I love it because its kind of recursive)
"It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls." - Aristophanes

Are you a secret Classics geek?

" Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman" - Euripides
"If Heaven shall be inflexible, then Hell shall be unleashed" - Virgil

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#27 A Silent Soliloquy

448 posts

Posted 24 March 2008 - 10:08 AM

QUOTE (Ali @ Mar 24 2008, 12:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Are you a secret Classics geek?

" Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman" - Euripides
"If Heaven shall be inflexible, then Hell shall be unleashed" - Virgil

Very much so, Greek Classics more specifically

Euripides is a genius

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity - Publius Syrus
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. - Cicero

Wait a minute who told you about my secret

Edited by The Golden Cheesepuff, 24 March 2008 - 10:26 AM.

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#28 113

1190 posts

Posted 24 March 2008 - 10:13 AM

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength - Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell
2+2=5 - Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell
Four legs good, two legs bad. - Animal Farm.George Orwell
Cleanliness is next to fordliness. - Brave New World. Aldous Huxley
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. - The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde.
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. - The Trial. Franz Kafka

I like to read books, so what?

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#29 Germ

501 posts

Posted 24 March 2008 - 10:14 AM

Always know if the juice is worth the squeeze. - Kelly

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#30 Guest_Ali_*

Posted 24 March 2008 - 10:38 AM

QUOTE (The Golden Cheesepuff @ Mar 24 2008, 06:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Very much so, Greek Classics more specifically

Euripides is a genius

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity - Publius Syrus
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. - Cicero

Wait a minute who told you about my secret

I very very nearly did a Classics degree. Prefer Greeks to Romans but my Latin is better than my Greek so I was always pushed more towards Roman stuff. *Sigh*

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#31 A Silent Soliloquy

448 posts

Posted 24 March 2008 - 11:29 AM

QUOTE (Ali @ Mar 24 2008, 01:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I very very nearly did a Classics degree. Prefer Greeks to Romans but my Latin is better than my Greek so I was always pushed more towards Roman stuff. *Sigh*

What did you end up majoring in? I don't even speak Homeric Greek a little bit =/

I've always wanted to learn but I don't know where =/

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#32 Guest_Ali_*

Posted 24 March 2008 - 11:34 AM

QUOTE (The Golden Cheesepuff @ Mar 24 2008, 07:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What did you end up majoring in? I don't even speak Homeric Greek a little bit =/

I've always wanted to learn but I don't know where =/

Music.

Heh, I had to do both Latin and Greek at school although I gave up Greek as soon as they'd let me. Had to get through 6 years of Latin though. >_<

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#33 A Silent Soliloquy

448 posts

Posted 24 March 2008 - 11:55 AM

QUOTE (Ali @ Mar 24 2008, 02:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Music.

Heh, I had to do both Latin and Greek at school although I gave up Greek as soon as they'd let me. Had to get through 6 years of Latin though. >_<

What instruments?

I have to do french and russian

. I hate them so much

Have you read the Illiad?

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#34 Guest_Ali_*

Posted 24 March 2008 - 12:02 PM

QUOTE (The Golden Cheesepuff @ Mar 24 2008, 07:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What instruments?

I have to do french and russian

. I hate them so much

Have you read the Illiad?

Violin with piano as a second study.

Yuh-huh, in Britain we do exams called A-Levels when we're 18 and I did Classics A-Level so had to read it for that. Along with The Odyssey, The Aeneid, an awful lot of Euripides and Aristophanes, some Plautus, some Catullus, some Lucretius, some Cicero, some Plato, bunch of other philosophers, other things that I don't really remember...

It was heavy couple of years.

Read Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon. It's fantastic. Clitophon sees Leucippe disembowled, eaten by cannibals, beheaded and yet she always turns up later alive and well.

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#35 A Silent Soliloquy

448 posts

Posted 24 March 2008 - 12:26 PM

QUOTE (Ali @ Mar 24 2008, 03:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Violin with piano as a second study.

Yuh-huh, in Britain we do exams called A-Levels when we're 18 and I did Classics A-Level so had to read it for that. Along with The Odyssey, The Aeneid, an awful lot of Euripides and Aristophanes, some Plautus, some Catullus, some Lucretius, some Cicero, some Plato, bunch of other philosophers, other things that I don't really remember...

It was heavy couple of years.

Read Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon. It's fantastic. Clitophon sees Leucippe disembowed, eaten by cannibals, beheaded and yet she always turns up later alive and well.

Oh similar to AP in a way; thats an awful lot of books... YAY!

Thats um.. quite a story o.o
I think I'm afraid of you now

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#36 Grizzy

477 posts

Posted 24 March 2008 - 01:53 PM

"Excuses are the tools of the weak and incompetant that build monuments to nothingness"
"It's not what you know, it's what you can prove."
"you keep knocking at hell's gate and somebody's bound to answer"

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#37 Guest_Ali_*

Posted 24 March 2008 - 04:15 PM

"Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? "