Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 5

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Euripides
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal while others on the contrary obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than before.
Polybius
Plodding wins the race.
Aesop
No great thing is created suddenly.
Epictetus
Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.
Alcmaeon
The angel of spring the mellow-throated nightingale.
Sappho
Necessity who is the mother of our invention.
Plato
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.
Plato
Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent.
Plato
The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus
Money is the wise man's religion.
Euripides
Men are men they needs must err.
Euripides
There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom lovers of honour lovers of gain.
Plato
This is the worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Herodotus
Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
Plutarch
Wherever a doctor cannot do good he must be kept from doing harm.
Hippocrates
When a man opens the car door for his wife it's either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Philip
Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent but he is a wild beast who walks upright.
Philemon
Man is the measure of all things.
Protagoras
Who dares think one thing and another tell My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Homer
No man ever wetted clay and then left it as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Plutarch
Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Sophocles
Love - a grave mental disease.
Plato
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles
You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
Elia Kazan
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
Aesop
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus
Achilles absent was Achilles still.
Homer
Know thyself.
Socrates
As for me all I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
Labor conquers all things.
Homer
The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance.
Diogenes
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Sophocles
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially.
Socrates
The Jews were God's chosen people.
St. Chrysostom
Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
Diogenes
Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten.
Aesop
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
Sophocles
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
Plato
In this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Pythagoras
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.
Aesop
Agesilaus the Spartan king was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.
Plutarch
A good man never dies.
Callimachus
One learns by doing the thing for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles
He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed.
Socrates
If anyone has a new idea in this country there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.
Prince Philip
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world.
Socrates
He held his seat a friend to human race.
Homer
Hope is the poor man's bread.
Thales
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
Euripides
Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
Euripides
Man will ever stand in need of man.
Theocritus
History is philosophy learned from examples.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
Plutarch
Noble fathers have noble children.
Euripides
Kindness affects more than severity.
Aesop
Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
Light is the task when many share the toil.
Homer
We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
Diogenes