Quotes by Greek/Greece authors (page 3)

"Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"A thought is an idea in transit"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"We make war that we may live in peace"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"

Plato, Philosopher

"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less"

Plato, Philosopher

"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases"

Plato, Philosopher

"Man - a being in search of meaning"

Plato, Philosopher

"I shall assume that your silence gives consent"

Plato, Philosopher

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws"

Plato, Philosopher

"As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser"

Plato, Philosopher

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge"

Socrates, Philosopher

"Wisdom begins in wonder"

Socrates, Philosopher

"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence"

Socrates, Philosopher

"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good"

Socrates, Philosopher

"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate"

Socrates, Philosopher

"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent"

Socrates, Philosopher

"An honest man is always a child"

Socrates, Philosopher

"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains"

Democritus, Philosopher

"Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly"

Democritus, Philosopher