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Byzantium
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The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition.
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― From The Meadows of Gold
― From The Meadows of Gold
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The only thing that I am sure of is that we are mysteries to others, as much as to ourselves.
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― AZ
― AZ
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