Quotes by Greek Authors

Applicants for wisdomdo what I have done:inquire within
Heraclitus
Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
Heraclitus
Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide.
Jessica Bell
No matter how entertaining, diverse, concise, or detailed, a writing craft book is, it’s not going to work magic on you, it’s not going to suddenly make you a brilliant writer simply by reading it. You need to use what you read and learn in your own writing. Because that’s when you have those AHA moments. That's when it really sticks.
Jessica Bell
Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest.
Plato
Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.
Euripides
Old loves are dropped when new ones come
Euripides
Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.
Euripides
Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.
Euripides
In childbirth grief begins.
Euripides
Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.
Euripides
I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.
Euripides
No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.
Sophocles
Closer, it’s all right. Touch the man of grief.Do. Don’t be afraid. My troubles are mine and I am the only man alive who can sustain them.
Sophocles
If you would be a reader read if a writer write.
Epictetus
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides
If there were no tribulation there would be no rest if there were no winter there would be no summer.
Saint John Chrysostom
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus
To be rich is not the end but only a change of worries.
Epicurus
Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles
He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander
Employment is nature's physician and is essential to human happiness.
Galen
Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.
Plutarch
The Gods rank work above virtues.
Hesiod
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Herodotus
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Aeschylus
Words will build no walls.
Plutarch
If a man would move the world he must first move himself.
Socrates
There is no worse evil than a bad woman and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
Euripides
As for me all I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
Homer
Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift.
Euripides
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
Epictetus
When a man's willing and eager God joins in.
Aeschylus
Sometimes when you have everything you can't really tell what matters.
Christina Onassis
The rich man is not one who is in possession of much but one who gives much.
Saint John Chrysostom
It is not right to exult over slain men.
Homer
Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war.
Homer
In peace sons bury their fathers in war fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Hesiod
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
Sophocles
It is a difficult task Oh citizens to make speeches to the belly which has no ears.
Plutarch
Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Seize time by the forelock.
Pittacus of Mitylene
Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus
Well-being is attained little by little and is no little thing itself.
Zeno
If you only keep adding little by little it will soon become a big heap.
Hesiod
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch
Little by little does the trick.
Aesop
Time is a kindly god.
Sophocles
All things flow nothing abides.
Heraclitus
This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.
Agathon
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
Epicurus
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well.
Epicurus
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
Plutarch
Enjoy yourself drink call the life you live today your own-but only that the rest belongs to chance.
Euripides
You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.
Heraclitus
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind those of the past and future as well as the present.
Epicurus