Quotes by Greek/Greece authors (page 4)

"Life must be lived as play"

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

"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference"

Aristotle, Philosopher

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

Aristotle, Philosopher

"We make war that we may live in peace"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence"

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

"Change in all things is sweet"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"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

"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

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion"

Democritus, Philosopher

"It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others"

Democritus, Philosopher

"I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia"

Democritus, Philosopher

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

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity"

Plutarch, Philosopher

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

Plutarch, Philosopher

"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker"

Plutarch, Philosopher

"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist"

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

"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