Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 24

Friends show their love - in times of trouble not in happiness.
Euripides
I am often asked a stock question: 'Have you actually read all those books?' To this I have my answer ready: 'Is there anybody who has read all the books in his library?' That would be like claiming to enjoy the incredible luxury and good fortune of being able to accomplish everything in this life that one would wish.
Konstantinos Staikos
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
G.I. Gurdjieff
We can’t fear the future with a present mindset. We must ask ourselves questions we do not know the answers to, we should disrupt ourselves to grow.
Natasha Tsakos
…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
Homer
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord.
Luke
OEDIPUS: Upon the murderer I invoke this curse-whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many- may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom! If with my knowledge he lives at my hearthI pray that I myself may feel my curse. On you I lay my charge to fulfill all this for me, for the God, and for this land of ours destroyed and blighted, by the God forsaken.
Sophocles
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.
Hesiod
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
There is a Revolution, it’s a human and technological revolution
Natasha Tsakos
Sublime natures are seldom clean!
Longinus
Excellent things are rare.
Plato
Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world.
Clement of Alexandria
To refuse ever to deny your youth, right up to extreme old age, to battle all life long to transubstantiate your adolescent flowering into a fruit-ladden tree - that, I belive, is the road of the fulfilled man. (Report to Greco)
N. Kazantzakis
no man is free until he s a master of himself!!
Epictetus
So... are you also chasing butterflies?
Natasha Tsakos
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Socrates
Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.
Hippocrates
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
What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.
Hippocrates
Nature loves to hide.
Heraclitus
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
Sophocles
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Sophocles
To do is to be.
Socrates
He held his seat a friend to human race.
Homer
Every medicine is vain.
Aeschylus
A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
Plutarch
Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
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
In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
Homer
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Giorgos Seferis
From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
G.I. Gurdjieff
How typical of a machine to think it knows better.
Vasileios Kalampakas
The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.
Natasha Tsakos
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
Number rules the universe.
Pythagoras
Love of liberty, the refusal to accept your soul's enslavement, not even in exchange for paradise; stalwart games over and above love and pain, over and above death; smashing even the most sacrosant of the molds when they are unable to contain you any longer - these are the great cries of Crete. (Report to Greco)
N. Kazantzakis
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles
Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness.
Galen
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
I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia
Ptolemy
Light is the shadow of god
Plato
I want to tell you something but good tasteRestrains me
Sappho van Lesbos
I would disapprove of another hospitable man who was excessive in friendship, as of one excessive in hate. In all things balance is better.
Homer
OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today!I who first saw the light bred of a matchaccursed, and accursed in my livingwith them I lived with, cursed in my killing.
Sophocles
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
When we shrink our whole reality down to pending projects, when our life becomes our endless to-do list, it's difficult to put them aside each night and let ourselves fall asleep and connect with something deeper.
Arianna Huffington
He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing .
Epicurus
A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it.
Epictetus
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
Hippocrates
The Shadow-maker shapes forever.
Lafcadio Hearn
Music becomes flesh and thrives in a new world, a new man . . .He, the last-born, son of music and love, shall arise in triumph over an ample land, prophet of a soul yet more ample . . .
Kostis Palamas
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
Epicurus
Sertorius rose up and spoke to his army, “You see, fellow soldiers, that perseverance is more prevailing than violence, and that many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Assiduity and persistence are irresistible, and in time overthrow and destroy the greatest powers whatever. Time being the favorable friend and assistant of those who use their judgment to await his occasions, and the destructive enemy of those who are unseasonably urging and pressing forward.
Plutarch
A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage.
Plato
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
Plutarch
For to fear death, men, is in fact nothing other than to seem to be wise, but not to be so. For it is to seem to know what one does not know: no one knows whether death does not even happen to be the greatest of all goods for the human being; but people fear it as though they knew well that it is the greatest of evils.
Plato
Because the new the stories we tell, the art we make, the rockets we build, will influence the future that shapes our present.
Natasha Tsakos
The only substance that goes in and never leaves, are words
Natasha Tsakos