Quotes by Ancient Greek Authors - Page 4

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Aristotle
What is evil neither can nor should be loved; for it is not one’s duty to be a lover of evil or to become like what is bad; and we have said that like is dear to like. Must the friendship, then, be forthwith broken off? Or is this not so in all cases, but only when one’s friends are incurable in their wickedness? If they are capable of being reformed one should rather come to the assistance of their character or their property, inasmuch as this is better and more characteristic of friendship. But a man who breaks off such a friendship would seem to be doing nothing strange; for it was not to a man of this sort that he was a friend; when his friend changed, therefore, and he is unable to save him, he gives him up.
Aristotle
Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
Aristotle
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Aristotle
All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings there’s too much corruption in the world
Aristotle
The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk.
Aristotle
The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk.
Aristotle
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
Aristotle
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Aristotle
Adventure is worthwhile.
Aristotle
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Aristotle
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
Aristotle
Even subjects that are known are known only to a few
Aristotle
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
Aristotle
Happiness is a state of activity.
Aristotle
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Open your mind before your mouth
Aristophanes
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one, but that is the best of all.
Archilochos
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
Aristotle
[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.
Aristophanes
youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle
The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
Aristotle
With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.
Aristotle
High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes
Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.
Aristotle
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
Aristotle
Philosophy can make people sick.
Aristotle
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Aristotle
I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Aristotle
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....
Aristotle
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Aristotle
One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
Aristotle
To perceive is to suffer.
Aristotle