Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 4

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken get to work on that.
Epictetus
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides
Since luck's a nine days' wonder wait their end.
Euripides
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
Euripides
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch
May God ... let me strive for attainable things.
Pindar
Life is a perilous voyage.
Palladas
No one is happy all his life long.
Euripides
After the rain cometh the fair weather.
Aesop
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart.
Socrates
He hears but half who hears one party only.
Aeschylus
Our prayers should be for blessings in general for God knows best what is good for us.
Socrates
Prayer is an all-efficient panoply a treasure undiminished a mine which is never exhausted a sky unobscured by clouds a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root the fountain the mother of a thousand blessings.
Saint John Chrysostom
Prayer should be the means by which I at all times receive all that I need and for this reason be my daily refuge my daily consolation my daily joy my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.
Saint John Chrysostom
The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire it hath bridled the rage of lions hushed anarchy to rest extinguished wars appeased the elements expelled demons burst the chains of death expanded the gates of heaven assuaged diseases repelled frauds rescued cities from destruction stayed the sun in its course and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.
Saint John Chrysostom
It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
Epicurus
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles
Prayer indeed is good but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates
It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.
Aesop
To the man who himself strives earnestly God also lends a helping hand.
Aeschylus
The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is O ye gods give me whatever is fitting unto me!
Appollonius of Tyana
Ask the gods nothing excessive.
Aeschylus
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Herodotus
Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly he said "That man does hot possess his estate but his estate possesses him."
Diogenes
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
Epictetus
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Sophocles
Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Plato
Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.
Socrates
A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted and who has many responsibilities.
Homer
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
Plato
Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men a search for their cause a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.
Epictetus
All philosophy lies in two words sustain and abstain.
Epictetus
To persevere trusting in what hopes he has is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Euripides
Fear is stronger than arms.
Aeschylus
Why should a man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly fore-know nothing? Best to live lightly as one can unthinking.
Sophocles
Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good.
Epicurus
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
Aeschylus
As a moth gnaws a garment so doth envy consume a man.
Saint John Chrysostom
There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.
Euripides
Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
Euripides
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
Aesop
Know thine opportunity.
Pittacus
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus
Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato
Time is the soul of this world.
Plutarch
Character is simply habit long enough continued.
Plutarch
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken get to work on that.
Epictetus
It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
Epictetus
That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life.
Euripides
Our costliest expenditure is time.
Theophrastus
Seize time by the forelock.
Pittacus
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Laertius Diogenes
Seize the hour.
Sophocles