Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 15

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
Euripides
He came to read; two or three booksare lying open: history and poetry.But after just ten minutes of readinghe lets them drop. There on the sofahe falls asleep. He truly is devoted to reading-but he is twenty-three years old, and very handsome.And just this afternoon, Eros surged within his perfect limbs and on his lips.Into his beautiful flesh came the heat of passion, and there was no foolish embarrassment about the form that pleasure took..
C.P Cavafy
The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.
Epicurus
The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze.
Dimitra Ekmektsis
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world.
Socrates
As we begin to internalize the technological kingdoms we have built, as we progressively become more superhuman, what will differentiate us from machinery?
Natasha Tsakos
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Sophocles
Death means nothing to us
Epicurus
I know one thing, that I know nothing.
Socrates
Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men a search for their cause a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.
Epictetus
Lower those sable eyes regarding me,Lower them, my jewel; they are flogging me. (Report to Greco)
N. Kazantzakis
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force... Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Hypatia
Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
Plato
It’s about running wild in a field of exclamation points chasing question marks
Natasha Tsakos
The State is like a great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life. I am that gadfly which God has given the State and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you. You will not easily find another like me.
Plato
The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.
Aesop
Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded laws of God.They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.I knew I must die, even without your decree:I am only mortal. And if I must dieNow, before it is my time to die,Surely this is no hardship: can anyoneLiving, as I live, with evil all about me,Think Death less than a friend?
Sophocles
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
Epictetus
Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.
G.I. Gurdjieff
Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.
Aeschylus
Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
Plutarch
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus
In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right to rest our hopes not on a belief in his blunders, but on the soundness of our provisions. Nor ought we to believe that there is much difference between man and man, but to think that the superiority lies with him who is reared in the severest school.
Thucydides
David had left her,taking his insane jealousy with him.
Mary Papas
For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation.
Plato
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
Hippocrates
That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.
Stefanos Livos
Farming is a most senseless pursuit a mere laboring in a circle. You sow that you may reap and then you reap that you may sow. Nothing ever comes of it.
Joannes Stobaeus
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
Plato
Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
Blushing is the color of virtue.
Diogenes of Sinope
When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.
Plutarch
‎Most of the times, we feel more enjoyment from just recalling good memories of the past rather from those moments we lived,not because we did not have a good time but because realization has come late.
Dionisis Agelakis
Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.
Euripides
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
Epictetus
How many things can I do without?
Socrates
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
Aesop
A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist
Sophocles
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Euripides
...making some noise in the woods is a thing that one can forget. The sound of a man’s voice on the other hand, is something else entirely.
Angelo Tsanatelis
Without labor nothing prospers.
Sophocles
We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.
Hierocles
People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of what they say, to get to what they truly feel. That's what good literature is all about-- what Austen did better than anyone.
M.C. Frank
It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.
Epictetus
And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.
Homer
The cause of every anomaly can be found in woman.
G.I. Gurdjieff
As long as our ideas are the same, we will never be apart.
G.I. Gurdjieff
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Plato
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Democritus
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer
…Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus, has ordained this law to men: that fishes and wild beasts and winged birds should devour one another, since there is no justice in them; but to mankind he gave justice which proves for the best.
Hesiod
Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that . . . As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms.
Pythagoras
Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self.
Epictetus
I have Shakespeared my Moliere to Tenessee, and I am Wild for Becket! But I got a little tired of the redundancy.
Natasha Tsakos
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.
Diogenes Laërtius
The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.
Heraclitus