Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 26

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire the other is to get it.
Socrates
Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?
Diogenes of Sinope
Courage is a kind of salvation.
Plato
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Euripides
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Plato
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
It is better to be envied than pitied.
Herodotus
The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.
Mary Papas
no man will survive who genuinely opposes you or any other crowd and prevents the occurrence of many unjust and illegal happenings in the city. A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time
Plato
Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten.
Aesop
and what happens around us ,simply happens because we haven't learned to love .Till this moment ,people would have to go through the same paths ,experience similar events ,blinded ,full of wrath,imprisoned and bounded by themselves.They will star at their fellows seeing what they are unable to see on themselves....Themselves!
Katerina Kostaki
A city which belongs to just one man is no true city
Sophocles
Everything flows nothing stays still.
Heraclitus
good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws
Plato
Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.
Heraclitus
A man can hide all things excepting twain - That he is drunk and that he is in love.
Antiphanes
As to Caesar when he was called upon he gave no testimony against Clodius nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime but of the very suspicion of it."
Plutarch
[The Holy Spirit] is present as a whole to each and wholly present everywhere. He is portioned out impassably and participated in as a whole. He is like a sunbeam whose grace is present to the one who enjoys him as if he were present to such a one alone, and still he illuminates land and sea and is mixed with the air. Just so, indeed, the Spirit is present to each one who is fit to receive him, as if he were present to him alone, and still he sends out his grace that is complete and sufficient for all. The things that participate in him enjoy him to the extent that their nature allows, not to the extent that his power allows.
Basil the Great
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
Plato
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
One of the great constants in life is change.
Heracleitus
If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
Philip
All is change all yields its place and goes.
Euripides
There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness
Sophocles
Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.
Heraclitus
Wisdom is the oneness of mind that guides and permeates all things.
Heraclitus
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.
Socrates
...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away...
Socrates
God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.
Empedocles
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
Let’s create positive change on this planet; With either: the hyper sophisticated tools we have, or the mobile device we are
Natasha Tsakos
One more such victory and we are undone.
Pyrrhus
Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.
Sappho
I think they are a better race than humans ever were.
Angelo Tsanatelis
But you must know that only he who fights the darkness within will the day after tomorrow have his own share in the sun.
Odysseus Elytis
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus and a gift though small is precious.
Homer
It is a wise child that knows his own father.
Homer
Nature has given to men one tongue but two ears that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
It was my tongue that swore my heart is unsworn.
Euripides
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
Thucydides
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Plato
The Magician makes the visible, invisible.The Scientist makes the invisible, visible.The Artist stands in between, indivisible.
Natasha Tsakos
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
Plutarch
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Aesop
History is philosophy learned from examples.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
Galen
In Unity we can be enslaved, and in Unity we can also come together as individuals." Old Woman
Eleni Papanou
To the man who himself strives earnestly God also lends a helping hand.
Aeschylus
Human misery must somewhere have a stop there is no wind that always blows a storm.
Euripides
Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.
Galen
If anyone has a new idea in this country there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.
Prince Philip
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one.
Epictetus
Living a fulfilling relationship requires courage, nakedness and absolute fearlessness.
Liliane Mavridara
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Plutarch
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
Aesop
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy though he is master of the world.
Epicurus
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus
People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls.
Heraclitus
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
G.I. Gurdjieff