Quotes by Greek/Greece authors (page 3)

"Stand a little less between me and the sun"

Diogenes, Philosopher

"I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance"

Diogenes, Philosopher

"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards"

Diogenes, Philosopher

"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"Nothing endures but change"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

"When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers"

Herodotus, Historian

"Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them"

Hypatia, Philosopher

"In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable"

Hypatia, Philosopher

"I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try"

Alexander the Great, Leader

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you"

Pericles, Statesman

"No man is hurt but by himself"

Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher

"Despair often breeds disease"

Sophocles, Author

"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless"

Sophocles, Author

"A short saying often contains much wisdom"

Sophocles, Author

"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always"

Sophocles, Author

"No one longs to live more than someone growing old"

Sophocles, Author

"It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth"

Sophocles, Author

"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good"

Sophocles, Author

"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils"

Sophocles, Author

"When trouble ends even troubles please"

Sophocles, Author

"There is a point at which even justice does injury"

Sophocles, Author

"The good and the wise lead quiet lives"

Euripides, Poet

"God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it"

Euripides, Poet

"Better a serpent than a stepmother!"

Euripides, Poet

"When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor"

Euripides, Poet

"Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account"

Euripides, Poet

"There is just one life for each of us: our own"

Euripides, Poet

"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God"

Euripides, Poet

"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles"

Plato, 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

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Quotes by Greek authors