Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 7

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
Plato
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
John Chrysostom
The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is O ye gods give me whatever is fitting unto me!
Appollonius of Tyana
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
Common aim is stronger than blood.
G.I. Gurdjieff
For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but the Free; but rather to the Philosophers, who say, that the Well-educated alone are free.
Epictetus
Step out of my sunlight.
Diogenes Laërtius
We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.
Arianna Huffington
Since we are mortal friendships are best kept to a moderate level rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.
Hippolytus
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
Euripides
The rule of the people has the fairest name of all, equality (isonomia), and does none of the things that a monarch does. The lot determines offices, power is held accountable, and deliberation is conducted in public.
Herodotus
Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly he said "That man does hot possess his estate but his estate possesses him."
Diogenes
Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.
Irenaeus of Lyons
If a man would move the world he must first move himself.
Socrates
A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?
Mary Papas
Our superintendence in instruction and discipline is the office of the Word, from whom we learn frugality and humility, and all that pertains to love of truth, love of humanity, and love of excellence. And so, in a word, being assimilated to God by participation in moral excellence, we must not retrograde into carelessness and sloth. But labor, and faint not.
Clement of Alexandria
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus