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Georg C. Lichtenberg

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

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The Greeks understood human behavior deeply and naturally, something we struggle to regain in modern times. According to Lichtenberg, to reach that level of insight again, society might need to experience a period of harsh decline or chaos first.

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