Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 9

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates
But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.
Sophocles
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
Socrates
Much wants more and loses all.
Aesop
So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.
Epictetus
Everything is fair in love and art.
Christos Tsiolkas
Why do you want to read anyway – for the sake of amusement or mere erudition? Those are poor, fatuous pretexts. Reading should serve the goal of attaining peace; if it doesn’t make you peaceful, what good is it?
Epictetus
Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.
Aeschylus
That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.
Plato
If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but for all time; and indeed it would seem now that it will be extremely dangerous to neglect it. If death were a release from everything, it would be a boon for the wicked, because by dying they would be released not only from the body but also from their own wickedness together with the soul; but as it is, since the soul is clearly immortal, it can have no escape of security from evil except by becoming as good and wise as it possibly can. For it takes nothing with it to the next world except its education and training...
Socrates
Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.
Heraclitus
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and gives them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune...
Plutarch
[A] right understanding that death is nothingto us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to itan infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving forimmortality. For there is nothing terrible in life for the man who hastruly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.
Epicurus
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop
It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.
Apostolos Doxiadis
—so as the great Achilles rampaged on, his sharp-hoofed stallions trampled shields and corpses, axle under his chariot splashed with blood, blood on the handrails sweeping round the car, sprays of blood shooting up from the stallions' hoofs and churning, whirling rims—and the son of Peleus charioteering on to seize his glory, bloody filth splattering both strong arms, Achilles' invincible arms—
Homer
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Herodotus
It is the bold man who every time does best at home or abroad.
Homer
The ticket to Utopia ia real Love that springs from within us.
Katerina Kostaki
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you your own life than turn away a good friend.
Sophocles
What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar - and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges? Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules. And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What would have been the use of those arms, that physique, and that noble soul, without crises or conditions to stir into him action?
Epictetus
Being creative is not being afraid of being lost.
Natasha Tsakos
That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.
Euripides
Agesilaus the Spartan king was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.
Plutarch
The truth of history lies simultaneously in the substratum of created existence (since all beings are the willed realizations of God's love); in the fulfillment of the future of history (since God's love, in His will and its expressions - namely, created existence - is identifiable with the final communion of creation with the life of God); and in the incarnate Christ (since on God's part the personification of this loving will is the incarnate Christ). Whereby Christ becomes the "principle" and "end" of all things, the One who not only moves history from within its own unfolding but who also moves existence even from within the multiplicity of created things, toward the true being which is true life and true communion.
John D. Zizioulas
Well-being is attained little by little and is no little thing itself.
Zeno
Once again Love, that loosener of limbs,bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing,seizes me.
Sappho
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Aeschylus
Ruin and recovery are both from within.
Epictetus
Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.
Plato
Leave no stone unturned.
Euripides
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell Is he who hiding one thing in his heart Utters another.
Homer
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
Theatre is a voyage into the archives of the human imagination
Natasha Tsakos
It is in virtue that happiness consists for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.
Zeno
Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love.
Antiphanes
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
Sappho
My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates
Socrates
God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.
Socrates
Every woman is as bitter as gall. But she has two good moments: one in bed, the other at her death.
Palladas
A philosopher named Aristippus, who had quite willingly sucked up to Dionysus and won himself a spot at his court, saw Diogenes cooking lentils for a meal. "If you would only learn to compliment Dionysus, you wouldn't have to live on lentils."Diogenes replied, "But if you would only learn to live on lentils, you wouldn't have to flatter Dionysus.
Diogenes of Sinope
He hears but half who hears one party only.
Aeschylus
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus
Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
G.I. Gurdjieff
The Gods rank work above virtues.
Hesiod
They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)
Plato
You should not honor men more than truth.
Plato
Try first thyself and after call in God For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Euripides
Men of Athens, I honor and I love you, but I will obey the god rather than you and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet.
Plato
Every moment is a crossroad in time. Consider that, as above so below and as inside so outside and live accordingly.
Grigoris Deoudis
If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it
Democritus
Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans -- or even Romans, the most "modern" among people of antiquity -- they all placed the Golden Age, the Age of Truth, the rule of Kronos or of Ra or of any other gods on earth -- the glorious beginning of the slow, downward unfurling of history, whatever name it be given -- far behind them in the past.
Savitri Devi
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Hippocrates
If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to say that it is because of them that I do what I am doing, and not through choice of what is best - although my actions are controlled by Mind - would be a very lax and inaccurate form of expression.
Socrates
Truly, nothing more resembles God's eyes than the eyes of a child; they see the world for the first time, and create it. Before this, the world is chaos. All creatures - animals, trees, men, stones; everything:forms, colors, voices, smells, lightning flashes - flow unexplained in front of the child's eyes (no, not in front of them, inside them), and he cannot fasten them down, cannot establish order. The child's world is made not of clay, to last, but of clouds. (Report to Greco)
N. Kazantzakis
Watch through the clarity of your mind ,the clear essence of your soul and judge accordingly.Your Inner Voices state the Truth and only the Truth.Let not anything interfere between your heart and mind.Let not anything break the Silence that comes within and promote Spirit .BECAUSE what matters is to promote Spirit .Voices from within
Katerina Kostaki
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch
But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.
Plato