Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 28

What is love?It's not empathy, nor kindness.Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the one who empathizes.Kindness takes two, the one who gives and the one who takes.But love takes just one.The two get together into one.They don't separate.The "I" and the "you" disappear.I LOVE MEANS I DISAPPEAR..
Nikos Kazantzakis
The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age.
Homer
There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if in life he has abandoned bodily pleasures and adornments, as foreign to his purpose and likely to do more harm than good, and has devoted himself to the pleasures of acquiring knowledge, and so by decking his soul not with a borrowed beauty but with its own - with self-control, and goodness, and courage, and liberality, and truth - has fitted himself to await his journey in the next world.
Socrates
If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people.
Plato
It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.
Herodotus
Because what God wants, that, and only that, is also what we want—but we don't know it. God comes and awakens our souls, revealing to them their real, though unknown, desire. This is the secret, Brother Leo. To do the will of God means to do my own most deeply hidden will.
Nikos Kazantzakis
If the past is no longer presentis it fiction?
Natasha Tsakos
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.
Socrates
Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent but he is a wild beast who walks upright.
Philemon
Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.
Ptolemy
Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·
Constantinos P. Cavafis
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?
Socrates
You know all about love, but that is not enough. You must also learn that hate comes from God as well, that it too is in the Lord's service. And in times like these, with the world fallen to the state it has, hate serves God more than love.
Nikos Kazantzakis
She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.
Mary Papas
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato
And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.
Aeschylus