Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 24

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
Sophocles
There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
I do not feel any obligations toward my lineage, or environment,but an inclination to what feels right.
Natasha Tsakos
So... are you also chasing butterflies?
Natasha Tsakos
What then did those immortals see, the writers who aimed at all which is greatest and scorned the accuracy which lies in every detail? They saw many other things and they also saw this, that Nature determined man to be no low or ignoble animal; but introducing us into life and this entire universe as into some vast assemblage, to be spectators, in a sort, of her entirety, and most ardent competitors, did then implant in our souls an invincible and eternal love of that which is great and, by our own standard, more devine. Therefore it is, that for the speculation and thought which are within the scope of human endeavour not all the universe together is sufficient, our conceptions often pass beyond the bounds which limit it; and if a man were to look upon life all around, and see how in all things the extraordinary, the great, the beautiful stand supreme, he will at once know for what ends we have been born.
Longinus
Don't put your purpose in one place and expect to see progress made somewhere else.
Epictetus
My heart's a dance of fear.
Aeschylus
Being creative is not being afraid of being lost.
Natasha Tsakos
We can’t fear the future with a present mindset. We must ask ourselves questions we do not know the answers to, we should disrupt ourselves to grow.
Natasha Tsakos
It was all about taking the leap of faith. It said that the fear that stops us from doing what we really want, is often not based on reality. We shape our fears in our heads, but things are so much easier than we think.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
Plutarch
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
Sophocles
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
Aesop
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
Epictetus
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
I write because I hope.I write because I have faith.Hope.Hope alike a fresh flower grows in the sand of my heart .Faith.Faith alike the Sea will be perishing only when Sea disappears .
Katerina Kostaki
Let us then, my brethren, endure in hope. Let us devote ourselves, side-by-side with our hoping, so that the God of all the universe, as he beholds our intention, may cleanse us from all sins, fill us with high hopes from what we have in hand, and grant us the change of heart that saves. God has called you, and you have your calling.
Cyril of Jerusalem
If I save my insight, I don’t attend to weakness of eyesight.
Socrates
A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.
Stefanos Livos
Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.
Epictetus
Literature is the real life of imaginary people.
Stefanos Livos
The Magician makes the visible, invisible.The Scientist makes the invisible, visible.The Artist stands in between, indivisible.
Natasha Tsakos
Science is no longer fiction,but Reality may become one.
Natasha Tsakos
We should resume our language to science and leave the rest to silence
Natasha Tsakos
In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.
Hippocrates
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
If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to say that it is because of them that I do what I am doing, and not through choice of what is best - although my actions are controlled by Mind - would be a very lax and inaccurate form of expression.
Socrates
If you formulate your question properly, mathematics gives you the answer
Savas Dimopoulos
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.
Euripides
The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
Anaximander
As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
Hippocrates
There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
Pythagoras
You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.
Plato
Only time would tell if this blazing fire would eventually die on the altar of ephemeral summer love, or if, by any chance, it had the power to kindle for a while, then light up anew, this time to burn forever more.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
The Magician makes the visible, invisible.The Scientist makes the invisible, visible.The Artist stands in between, indivisible.
Natasha Tsakos
Science is no longer fiction,but Reality may become one.
Natasha Tsakos
We should resume our language to science and leave the rest to silence
Natasha Tsakos
In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.
Hippocrates
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
If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to say that it is because of them that I do what I am doing, and not through choice of what is best - although my actions are controlled by Mind - would be a very lax and inaccurate form of expression.
Socrates
If you formulate your question properly, mathematics gives you the answer
Savas Dimopoulos
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.
Euripides
The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
Anaximander
As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
Hippocrates
There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
Pythagoras
You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.
Plato
Only time would tell if this blazing fire would eventually die on the altar of ephemeral summer love, or if, by any chance, it had the power to kindle for a while, then light up anew, this time to burn forever more.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
Sophocles
Every moment is a crossroad in time. Consider that, as above so below and as inside so outside and live accordingly.
Grigoris Deoudis
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
Hippocrates
Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
Aeschylus
Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus
Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.
Diogenes Laërtius
For, let me tell you that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me are the pleasure and charm of conversation.
Plato
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Aesop
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
Aesop
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato
Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer. Put your principles into practice – now. Stop the excuses and the procrastination. This is your life! You aren’t a child anymore. The sooner you set yourself to your spiritual program, the happier you will be. The longer you wait, the more you’ll be vulnerable to mediocrity and feel filled with shame and regret, because you know you are capable of better. From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do – now.
Epictetus