L OGIC Great Books Quotes H ere is a page of great quotes from some the books that first year Great Books readers will get to read. I have chosen most of these quotes based on their flare and rhetorical prowess.
Men carry burdens on their heads, women on their shoulders.
Women make water standing, men sitting. They relieve nature indoors and eat out of doors in the streets, giving the reason, that things unseemly but necessary should be done in secret, things not unseemly should be done openly. A.D. Godley trans. Book II sec. Minos, also, was especially pleased because he had defeated Taurus at wrestling and humiliated him, and so he restored the Athenian youths to Theseus and released Athens from tribute.