Quotes by Greek Authors

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.
Euripides
Old loves are dropped when new ones come
Euripides
Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.
Euripides
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles
The angel of spring the mellow-throated nightingale.
Sappho
No one is happy all his life long.
Euripides
If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we’d still be riding bicycles.
Natasha Tsakos
There's such an intimate kind of beauty in the act of listening to music being created right in front of your eyes, watching the notes fly off the performers' fingertips, the night enveloping you like a blanket. 
M.C. Frank
...[I]f at the time of its release the soul is tainted and impure, because it has always associated with the body and cared for it and loved it, and has been so beguiled by the body and its passions and pleasures that nothing seems real to it but those physical things which can be touched and seen and eaten and drunk and used for sexual enjoyment; and if it is accustomed to hate and fear and avoid what is invisible and hidden from our eyes, but intelligible and comprehensible by philosophy - if the soul is in this state, do you think that it will escape independent and uncontaminated?
Socrates
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and gives them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune...
Plutarch
Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.
Democritus
At morn we buried Melanippus; as the sun set the maiden Basilo died by her own hand, as she could not endure to lay her brother on the pyre and live; and the house beheld a two-fold woe, and all Cyrene bowed her head, to see the home of happy children made desolate.
allimachus and Lycophron CXLII
These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.
Stefanos Livos
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. 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. 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
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
Plutarch
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive
Euripides
A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.
Euclid
… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.
Yiannis Ritsos
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.
Lafcadio Hearn
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
Homer
Too many kings can ruin an army
Homer