Quotes by Greek/Greece authors (page 2)

"No one is happy all his life long"

Euripides, Poet

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little"

Plato, Philosopher

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

Aristotle, Philosopher

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature"

Socrates, Philosopher

"A human being is only breath and shadow"

Sophocles, Author

"Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes"

Euripides, Poet

"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men"

Plato, Philosopher

"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken"

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

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Silence is better than unmeaning words"

Pythagoras, Mathematician

"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul"

Democritus, Philosopher

"Wisdom begins in wonder"

Socrates, Philosopher

"He who goes unenvied shall not be admired"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"The mob is the mother of tyrants"

Diogenes, Philosopher

"The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning"

Aristotle Onassis, Businessman

"True friends appear less moved than counterfeit"

Homer, Poet

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything"

Xenophon, Soldier

"A man growing old becomes a child again"

Sophocles, Author

"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness"

Sophocles, Author

"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold"

Euripides, Poet

"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband"

Euripides, Poet

"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete"

Epictetus, Philosopher