Athens/history

Famous quotes containing the words athens and/or history:

“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)

“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)