Quotes by Greek/Greece authors (page 8)

"Better not to exist than live basely"

Sophocles, Author

"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear"

Sophocles, Author

"There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune"

Sophocles, Author

"Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day"

Sophocles, Author

"Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed"

Sophocles, Author

"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds"

Sophocles, Author

"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping"

Sophocles, Author

"I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow"

Sophocles, Author

"Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is"

Sophocles, Author

"How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth"

Sophocles, Author

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts"

Sophocles, Author

"What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?"

Sophocles, Author

"Not knowing anything is the sweetest life"

Sophocles, Author

"Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it"

Sophocles, Author

"It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong"

Sophocles, Author

"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink"

Sophocles, Author

"I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow"

Sophocles, Author

"Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly"

Sophocles, Author

"A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist"

Sophocles, Author

"A lie never lives to be old"

Sophocles, Author

"Cleverness is not wisdom"

Euripides, Poet

"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails"

Euripides, Poet

"Silence is true wisdom's best reply"

Euripides, Poet

"Life has no blessing like a prudent friend"

Euripides, Poet

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future"

Euripides, Poet

"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far"

Euripides, Poet

"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain"

Euripides, Poet

"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too"

Euripides, Poet

"Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent"

Euripides, Poet

"'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore"

Euripides, Poet

"Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err"

Euripides, Poet

"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides"

Euripides, Poet

"Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand"

Euripides, Poet

"The bold are helpless without cleverness"

Euripides, Poet

"Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise"

Euripides, Poet

"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other"

Euripides, Poet

"But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay"

Euripides, Poet

"The best of seers is he who guesses well"

Euripides, Poet

"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man"

Euripides, Poet

"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head"

Euripides, Poet

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Quotes by Greek authors