Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 11

You need to take some acting classes to learn to hide your huge crush on my husband better
Mary Papas
Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear
Homer
As relates to life on Earth, the fine structure constant determines how solar radiation is absorbed in our atmosphere, and it also applies to how photosynthesis works in plants.
Deepak Chopra & Menas C. Kafatos
The human heart is a dark, unyielding mystery. It is a perforated jug with a mouth forever open; though all rivers of the earth pour in, it will remain empty and thirsting. The greatest of hopes had not filled it. Would it be filled now by the greatest of despairs? (Report to Greco)
N. Kazantzakis
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
Do not waste your pity on a scamp.
Aesop
Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.
Menander
We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
Diogenes Laërtius
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
Thucydides
That which wounds, shall heal.
Apollo
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
Each moment is a poetic expression of the undefined. As long as it remains undefined, it has all the beauty of the world and it steps inside to nurture your dreams.
Grigoris Deoudis
How is having a super orgasm going to increase the knowledge of Jesus Christ?
Mary D. Brooks
It is a hard matter my fellow citizens to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
Plutarch
...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.
Aesop
Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.
Epicurus
O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here weAre laid to rest: the commands they gave us have been obeyed.Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδεκείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.[Epitaph of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae]
Simonides
Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?
Socrates
Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
Heraclitus
The only man she ever loved. And hated.
Mary Papas
The unfolding of a Spermatic Aura like a sheet in the Universe. That we are ~
Grigoris Deoudis
What does matter is that you understand this one great truth I have learned in my life: having knowledge, even at the expense of leaving the Garden, has been worth it. For it is through this great gift of knowledge that I have understood something of the Creator's power - yes, even the Creator's love. Out of what seemed punishment, came a great good; out of physical pain, all of you have emerged. The pain has been forgotten while the pleasure of your presence endures. Adam and I have known joy - how would we have tasted it had we not known its opposite, sorrow? And we have seen how darkness is dispelled when light arrives, night and day, after night and day. We never tire of it.
Katerina Whitley
What then did those immortals see, the writers who aimed at all which is greatest and scorned the accuracy which lies in every detail? They saw many other things and they also saw this, that Nature determined man to be no low or ignoble animal; but introducing us into life and this entire universe as into some vast assemblage, to be spectators, in a sort, of her entirety, and most ardent competitors, did then implant in our souls an invincible and eternal love of that which is great and, by our own standard, more devine. Therefore it is, that for the speculation and thought which are within the scope of human endeavour not all the universe together is sufficient, our conceptions often pass beyond the bounds which limit it; and if a man were to look upon life all around, and see how in all things the extraordinary, the great, the beautiful stand supreme, he will at once know for what ends we have been born.
Longinus
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
Diogenes of Sinope
Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "i". And each time his i is different. just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.
G.I. Gurdjieff
The way out of a dead end is to go back the way you came in…
Evangelos Zoumbaneas
Nothing great is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom then bear fruit then ripen.
Epictetus
Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason.
Epictetus
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
Epictetus
Money is the wise man's religion.
Euripides
At morn we buried Melanippus; as the sun set the maiden Basilo died by her own hand, as she could not endure to lay her brother on the pyre and live; and the house beheld a two-fold woe, and all Cyrene bowed her head, to see the home of happy children made desolate.
allimachus and Lycophron CXLII
One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.
Euripides
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
Epicurus
....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.(tr Jowett)
Plato
if nothing endswhere do we begin?
Natasha Tsakos
I meet people and they enforce me their culture and then I choose to fly away and I meet other people and these people force me their religion and I wanna fly away. I meet other people, these people are silent, we begin to sing the song of the ocean and then we fly away together ~
Grigoris Deoudis
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."
Diogenes
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
Plato
For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it.
Hippocrates
You cannot step into the same river twice
Heraclitus of Ephesus
No. I don't believe in anything. How many times must I tell you that? I don't believe in anything anyone; only in Zorba. Not because Zorba is better than the others; not at all, not a little bit! He's a brute like the rest! But I believe in Zorba because he's the only being I have in my power, the only one I know. All the rest are guts. All the rest are ghosts, I tell you. When I die, everything'll die. The whole Zorbatic world will go to the bottom!
Nikos Kazantzakis
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
Sophocles
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
Plato
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Plutarch
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
Demosthenes
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
Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.
Isocrates
Love - a grave mental disease.
Plato
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
Heraclitus
We are reaching levels of high experiential comfort and our standards will keep rising. We want to feel, we want to experience, we want to connect, we want intelligence, and we want to play; Ladies and Gentlemen: A new theatre is on its way.
Natasha Tsakos
if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great nonsense of mortality, but if he could see the divine Beauty itself in its one form? Do you think it would be a poor life for a human being to look there and to behold it by that which he ought, and to be with it? Or haven't you remembered that in that life alone, when he looks at Beauty in the only way what Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth no to images of virtue but to true virtue. The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given birth to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
Plato
So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.
Epictetus
There is no greater failure than success through wrong means
Nicholas C. Rossis
O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.
Plato
History is made by those who see beyond what already exists. They see all the things that don’t yet.
Natasha Tsakos
I was a young impressionable 13 year old hearing the pro-left and pro-right argument. So one day I would be convinced that one side was right. the other day I would be convinced the other side was right. And then I was getting confused. How can both of these things be true if they were contrary to each other. So I decided to focus on a field where the truth didn't dependent upon the eloquence of the speaker. The truth was absolute.
Savas Dimopoulos
Perfection is dangerous. It leaves no room for range.
Natasha Tsakos
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
Euripides
He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.
Plutarch