Of the many people's of the earth, the Romans may have had the most boring religion of all. ...basically a businessman's religion of contractual obli… - Thomas Cahill

The [Greek] myths were... attempting—at a deeper level—to feel the intangible and say the unsayable.

Whereas elsewhere in Europe, no educated man would be caught dead speaking a vernacular, the Irish thought that all language was game—and too much fun to be deprived of any part of it. They were still too childlike and playful to find any value in snobbery.

As... Greek philosophy split into scores of yip-yapping schools, the Greeks became more and more puzzled. They had lost their way philosophically—and the Romans, who were just aping them, had nothing original to propose by way of saving them all from their dilemmas.