Quotes by Greek Authors

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

Euripides

No one is happy all his life long.

Euripides

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

These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.

Stefanos Livos

… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.

Yiannis Ritsos