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  • Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore, be a Phocion or Pythagorean, to speak briefly to the point or not at all; let him labor like them of Crete, to show more wit in his discourse than words, and not to pour out of his mouth a flood of the one, when he can hardly wring out of his brains a drop of the other.

    Running   Men   Vanity  
  • Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

    Son   Islands   Jupiter  
    Lactantius, Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (1871). “The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods”, p.32
  • The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

  • How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

    Simple   Sea   Chestnuts  
    Zorba the Greek ch. 7 (1946) (translation by Carl Wildman)
  • Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass from one concrete object to its habitual concrete successor far more uniformly than is the case with us. In other words, their associations of ideas are almost exclusively by contiguity. So far, however, as any brute might think by abstract characters instead of by association of con cretes, he would have to be admitted to be a reasoner in the true human sense. How far this may take place is quite uncertain.

  • Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

    Time   Night   Texas  
    Thomas Wolfe (2016). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.4, Thomas Wolfe
  • I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.

    Summer   Plato   House  
  • The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

    Female   Lasts   Worship  
    Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.34, Canongate Books
  • In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

    Art   Discovery   Europe  
  • The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

    People   Crete  
    Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Jesting of Arlington Stringham"
  • Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

    Nikos Kazantzakis (1963). “Japan, China”
  • I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

    Happiness   Wine   Simple  
    Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
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