Where man wants to be God like in perfection and virtue. Trust the individual was the avowed doctrine in Athens, and expressed or unexpressed it was common to Greece. Civilization, a much abused word, stands for a high matter quite apart from telephones and electric lights. It is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the things of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, delicate feeling. I am neither Athenian nor Greek, but a world citizen.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued. I think it is not possible to live better than by improving oneself. Nature does not do anything without having a goal. Greece invented a goddess, Reason for a triangle as a head. Man is the measure of all things that are as they are , and of things that are not what they are not.