Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 6

The worst the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.
Euripides
No one is happy all his life long.
Euripides
That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.
Euripides
Best to live lightly unthinkingly.
Sophocles
It is in virtue that happiness consists for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.
Zeno
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
Sophocles
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
Plato
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
Socrates
When a man has lost all happiness he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides
Themistocles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks I govern the Athenians you my wife govern me your son governs you."
Plutarch
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned even the meanest yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government.
Socrates
No gossip ever dies away entirely if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.
Hesiod
We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.
Euripides
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus and a gift though small is precious.
Homer
Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.
Homer
The glory of God is in man fully alive.
St. Irenaeus
Try thyself first and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Euripides
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
What most counts is not to live but to live aright.
Socrates
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch
To do is to be.
Socrates
To be is to do.
Plato
The test of any man lies in action.
Pindar
Delay not to seize the hour!
Aeschylus
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.
Socrates
Two friends-two bodies with one soul inspired.
Homer
Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
Euripides
I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Euripides
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.
Socrates
To throw away an honest friend is as it were to throw your life away.
Sophocles
Rather throw away that which is dearest to you your own life than turn away a good friend.
Sophocles
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
Euripides
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes
Since we are mortal friendships are best kept to a moderate level rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.
Hippolytus
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
Sophocles
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
Prosperity is not just scale adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch
Friends show their love - in times of trouble not in happiness.
Euripides
It is a good thing to be rich it is a good thing to be strong but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
Euripides
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Euripides
A sympathetic friend can be quite dear as a brother.
Homer
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
Homer
The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.
Homer
Bear and forbear.
Epictetus
Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.
Aesop
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates
Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.
Epicurus
Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
Euripides
There is satiety in all things in sleep and love-making in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.
Homer
Ask the gods nothing excessive.
Aeschylus
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy though he is master of the world.
Epicurus
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus