Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 10

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
Zeno of Citium
Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.
Homer
Grandma calls it the Socratic Method. She considers it the highest pedagogical technique. I call it cornering a person. Instead of just telling you what I want you to know, I ambush you with questions. You try to escape, but you can’t. You can run whichever way you like, but in the end you’ll fall right into my trap.
Sophia Nikolaidou
Artists are social sensors and transmitters of ideas
Natasha Tsakos
Every medicine is vain.
Aeschylus
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
Hippocrates
There is an art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife
Hippocratic OAth
It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.
Hippocrates
Cure sometimes, treat often and comfort always.
Hippocrates
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
Hippocrates
The art is long, life is short, opportunity fleeting, experiment dangerous, judgment difficult.
Hippocrates
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
Hippocrates
Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future.
Hippocrates
For dealing with blessings which come to us from outside we need a firm foundation based on reason and education; without this foundation, people keep on seeking these blessings and heaping them up but can never satisfy the insatiable appetites of their souls.
Plutarch
As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.
Pythagoras
Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.
Plato
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
Plutarch
In the aether I appear in fiery forms, And in the aer I sit in a silvery chariot; earth reigns in my black brood of puppies.
Porphyry
Neleus...The son of Poseidon!A birth that came from the mate of a god and a mortal woman.Not plain at all!So it was, when the gods love, mate as humans with humans!From such a union two children were born, both boys.Their mother placed them in a small boat, and dropped it into the sea.The sea loved and saved them, children of Neptune were anyway!The river itself is connected with the sea, fresh water with salt, the land and the sea..."The sea herself guided us like legendary heroes into this new place ..".It couldn't be differently.Children of the Gods aren't we, our race? Have similar origin and similar history! Could not abandoned us, prey and exposed, like the two babies?
Katerina Kostaki
Once again Love, that loosener of limbs,bittersweet and inescapable, crawling thing,seizes me.
Sappho
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
Sophocles
Wisdom is knowing you know nothing
Socrates
Surely, the gods' judgment is certain. But as for us, we must be satisfied to 'come close' to those things, for we are men, who speak according to what is likely, and whose lectures resemble fables.
Proclus
I was a young impressionable 13 year old hearing the pro-left and pro-right argument. So one day I would be convinced that one side was right. the other day I would be convinced the other side was right. And then I was getting confused. How can both of these things be true if they were contrary to each other. So I decided to focus on a field where the truth didn't dependent upon the eloquence of the speaker. The truth was absolute.
Savas Dimopoulos
The knowledge of the soul is knowledge of the universe
Alexis Karpouzos
As relates to life on Earth, the fine structure constant determines how solar radiation is absorbed in our atmosphere, and it also applies to how photosynthesis works in plants.
Deepak Chopra & Menas C. Kafatos
You are wrong sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong.
Socrates
Everything in excess Is opposed by nature.
Hippocrates
When you're dead, you're dead, and that's that.
Costas Taktsis
Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.
Pindar
... man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...
Plutarch
Great wealth can make a man no happier than moderate means, unless he has the luck to continue in propsperity to the end. Many very rich men have been unfortunate, and many with a modest competence have had good luck. The former are better off than the latter in two respects only, whereas the poor but lucky man has the advantage in many ways; for though the rich have the means to satisfy their appetites and to bear calamities, and the poor have not, the poor, if they are lucky, are more likely to keep clear of trouble, and will have besides the blessings of a sound body, health, freedom from trouble, fine children, and good looks.Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word “happy” in reserve. Till then, he is not happy, but only lucky.
Herodotus
It is gaol that finally reveals to me the beauty of Shakespeare, the spirit in his words, the jaw-dropping audacity of his language.
Christos Tsiolkas
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus
It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.
Plato
There is no such thing as an “independent artist”. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.
Natasha Tsakos
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Socrates
Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them.
Plato
Justice is useful when money is useless.
Plato
I Guess there is a Limited Gap in this Republic of Bananas due to the DeKay N Y is Le Vice such an alarming Exchange when you Express your Benetton? Ask Tommy, he’ll figure!
Natasha Tsakos
no man will survive who genuinely opposes you or any other crowd and prevents the occurrence of many unjust and illegal happenings in the city. A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time
Plato
Hail the sun! the brightest of all that everDawned on the City of Seven Gates, City of Thebes!Hail the golden dawn over Dirce's riverRising to speed the flight of the white invaders Homeward in full retreat!" - Chorus
Sophocles
As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do you also not wait for clappings of hands and shouts of praise tob e induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily and you will be beloved as much as the sun.
Epictetus
That which is chiefly the office of a general, to force the enemy into fighting when he finds himself the stronger, and to avoid being driven into it himself when he is the weaker...
Plutarch
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
Plutarch
If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods.
Heraclitus
Such is the world that I can no longer bear to say prayers, for I am sick of speaking to the gods who choose to do nothingbut as they wish.
Alcaeus of Mytilene
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
Aeschylus
If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another
Epicurus
It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.
Herodotus
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.
Euripides
If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but for all time: and indeed it would seem now that it will be extremely dangerous to neglect it. If death were a release from everything, it would be a boon for the wicked. But since the soul is clearly immortal, it can have no escape or security from evil except by becoming as good and wise as it possibly can. For it takes nothing with it to the next world except its education and training: and these, we are told, are of supreme importance in helping or harming the newly dead at the very beginning of his journey there.
Socrates
He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them.
Pythagoras
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool
Aesop
Stupidity is doomed,therefore, to cringeat every syllableof wisdom.
Heraclitus
Content” ranges anywhere from the logo on a can of soup, dogs dancing on youtube, to the coding of an app:it’s confusing!
Natasha Tsakos
For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet
Plato
Evening you gather backall that dazzling dawn has put asunder:you gather a lamb, gather a kid,gather a child to its mother.
Sappho
The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)
Heraclitus
Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's.
Heraclitus