Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 8

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
Euripides
We understand and recognize what is good, but we do not labor to bring it to fulfillment, some of us out of laziness, some because we put something else, some pleasure, before virtue--and there are many pleasures in life, long conversations and indolence-that pleasing vice..
Euripides
The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.
Antisthenes
What we look for does not come to pass. God finds a way for what none foresaw.
Euripides
One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.
Heraclitus
Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.
Euripides
We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.
Parmenides
When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the spirit.
Epicurus
Achilles absent was Achilles still.
Homer
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander
Words are truly the image of the soul.
Basil the Great
You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equal in strength and that the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.
Thucydides
Only time would tell if this blazing fire would eventually die on the altar of ephemeral summer love, or if, by any chance, it had the power to kindle for a while, then light up anew, this time to burn forever more.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
Plato
...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly...
Sappho
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.
Polybius
For Time calls only once, and that determines all.
Sophocles
We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
Socrates
...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
Plato
The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.
Plato
Living as an entity under a filled with stars sky and seeking for intuition, a voice whispers from your heart, for soul is unchained from whatever pulls it down, while what she is craving for is but only Ascension towards Divine ”.
Katerina Kostaki
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good.
Epicurus
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
Plato
I declareThat later on,Even in an age unlike our own,Someone will remember who we are.
Sappho van Lesbos
Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.
Hippocrates
Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.
Euripides
As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.
Pythagoras
My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars.
Nikos Kazantzakis
The value is in the worth, not in the number.
Aesop
Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war.
Homer
First, I have not minded so much leaving the Garden because God, blessed be his holy name, has never abandoned us.
Katerina Whitley
That woman must have been a husky in a previous life.
Mary Papas
In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
Thucydides
We don't think. We think we think.
Natasha Tsakos
The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.
Basil the Great
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
Epicurus
When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.
Basil the Great
Death is a delightful hiding-place for weary men.
Herodotus
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
Hippocrates
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Epicurus
The evening starIs the mostbeautifulof all stars
Sappho
I am smart because I know I nothing.
Plato
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?
Nikos Kazantzakis
Heaven has appointed us dwellers on earth a time for all things.
Homer
He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act
Plato
There were nights for instance, especially in August, where the view of the full moon from the top of the Acropolis hill or from a high terrace could steal your breath away. The moon would slide over the clouds like a seducing princess dressed in her finest silvery silk. And the sky would be full of stars that trembled feebly, like servants that bowed before her. During those nights under the light of the August full moon, the city of Athens would become an enchanted kingdom that slept lazily under the sweet light of its ethereal mistress.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.
Hippocrates
Ability and necessity dwell near each other.
Pythagoras
Who except the gods can live without any pain?
Aeschylus
...Love Christ and put nothing before His Love. He is joy, He is life, He is light. Christ is Everything. He is the ultimate desire, He is everything. Everything beautiful is in Christ.
Elder Porphyrios
My heart's a dance of fear.
Aeschylus
We are not here to question the possible,we are here to challenge the impossible
Natasha Tsakos
If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their loves, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this. Or who would desert his beloved or fail him in the hour of danger? The veriest coward would become an inspired hero, equal to the bravest, at such a time; Love would inspire him.
Plato
Each day makes the difference !
Katerina Kostaki
It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.
Plato
The difference between an ignorant fool shoveling manure in a bullpen, and a fool with a PhD, is that the fool with the PhD can shovel more of it, faster.
Dimitris Mita
Those who don't know must learn from those who do.
Plato
Behind every crime lies an insult
Nicholas C. Rossis