Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 4

Number rules the universe.
Pythagoras
To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage. The coward despairs.
Euripides
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
Socrates
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Sophocles
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
Euripides
Theatre is pure teleportation by means of suspension. It’s a voyage into the archives of the human imagination. A passport to all what ifs.
Natasha Tsakos
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Plato
Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.
Nikos Kazantzakis
He feels her heart race madly against his own and for a second he thinks it’s finally happened , he’s come alive.
M.C. Frank
ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head
Euripides
Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.
Hippocrates
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
Aesop
Men perish by the sword cowards by disease.
Phillippus
There is a kind of flame in Crete - let us call it "soul" - something more powerful than either life or death. There is pride, obstinacy, valor, and together with these something else inexpressible and imponderable, something which makes you rejoice that you are human being, and at the same time tremble. (Report to Greco)
N. Kazantzakis
It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus
Epictetus
Freedom is to stand naked at the moment, having no expectations, nothing to lose or to gain. The empty then is fulfilled, just to be emptied again at the next moment. The Absolute Freedom is, to become every path, at any given moment.
Grigoris Deoudis
The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides
Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying ‘renew yourselves’ from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this.
John Chrysostom
The value is in the worth, not in the number.
Aesop
...I have had a remarkable experience. In the past the prophetic voice to which I have become accustomed has always been my constant companion, opposing me even in quite trivial things if I was going to take the wrong course. Now something has happened to me, as you can see, which might be thought and is commonly considered to be a supreme calamity; yet neither when I left home this morning, nor when I was taking my place here in court, nor at any point in any part of my speech did the divine sign oppose me. In other discussions it has often checked me in the middle of a sentence; but this time it has never opposed me in any part of this business in anything that I have said or done. What do I suppose to be the explanation? I will tell you. I suspect that this thing that has happened to me is a blessing, and we are quite mistaken in supposing death to be an evil. I have good grounds for thinking this, because my accustomed sign could not have failed to oppose me if what I was doing had not been sure to bring some good result.
Socrates
Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.
Plato
I heard the voice of that bird, son of Polypas, whose piercing outcryand whose arrival announces to men the season when fieldsare plowed, and the voice of her broke the heart that darkens within me,since other men posess my flourishing acres now,and not for me are the mules dragging the plow through the grainland,since I have given my heart to the restless seafarer's life.
Theognis
The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.
Epicurus
Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest.
Plato
Love - a grave mental disease.
Plato
The bee is more honored than other animals not because she labors but because she labors for others.
St. Chrysostom
JOCASTA:So clear in this case were the oracles,so clear and false. Give them no heed, I say;what God discovers need of, easilyhe shows to us himself.
Sophocles
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!
Homer
Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert
Sophocles
let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.
Plato
The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.
G.I. Gurdjieff
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
Sophocles
Hope is the poor man's bread.
Thales
Try thyself first and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Euripides
Someone will remember us I sayEven in another time
Sappho
The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does this prove it? What exactly is a proof, what is logical inference, what is contradiction, what is truth, what is falsehood?” Thus, the third field is necessary because of the second, and the second because of the first. The most important, though, the one that should occupy most of our time, is the first. But we do just the opposite. We are preoccupied with the third field and give that all our attention, passing the first by altogether. The result is that we lie – but have no difficulty proving why we shouldn’t.
Epictetus
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
Aeschylus
Words will build no walls.
Plutarch
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.
Plato
Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides
Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
Theophrastus
Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.
Plato
Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't even capable of following someone else who leads them to it, and upon many just things but not the just itself, and all the things like that, we'll claim that they accept the seeming of everything but discern nothing of what they have opinions about.
Plato
Looking at these people now from behind the counter, made her feel like that little girl again, the deprived child that used to press her nose on the glass, peering at things she could never have.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.
Homer
The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.” ― Plato, Plato's Republic
Plato
Content” ranges anywhere from the logo on a can of soup, dogs dancing on youtube, to the coding of an app:it’s confusing!
Natasha Tsakos
Her grandparents’ house was an old crammed up space just like all the others there, but to Sofia it had the luxuries of a palace and the reverence of a church.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mortal, that my claimUpon the future is no more than yours.
Sophocles
There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire, whether the way is smooth and easy, or rugged and difficult.
Plato
Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.
Euripides
Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
Zeno of Citium
But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.
Plato
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Socrates
The misuse of language induces evil in the soul
Socrates
Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.
Hippocrates
And since the portions of both the large and the small are equal in amount, in this way too all things would be in everything; nor can they be separate, but all things have a portion of everything. Since there cannot be a smallest, nothing can be separated or come to be by itself, but as in the beginning now too all things are together. But in all things there are many things, equal in amount, both in the larger and the smaller of the things being separated off.
Anaxagoras
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another
Epicurus
Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.
Plutarch
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
Plato