Quotes by Greek Authors - Page 8

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
Plutarch
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus
It is the bold man who every time does best at home or abroad.
Homer
Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.
Plato
One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.
Euripides
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
Plato
It was my tongue that swore my heart is unsworn.
Euripides
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece but of the world.
Socrates
Far from gay cities and the way of men.
Homer
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord.
Luke
Of all animals the boy is the most unmanageable.
Plato
It is a wise child that knows his own father.
Homer
The wildest colts make the best horses.
Plutarch
Character is long-standing habit.
Plutarch
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity not a threat.
Prince Phillip of England
It is in changing that things find purpose.
Heraclitus
All is change all yields its place and goes.
Euripides
Everything flows nothing stays still.
Heraclitus
Nothing is permanent but change.
Heraclitus
Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.
Pindar
There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
You can't step into the same river twice.
Heraclitus
If you do not expect it you will not find the unexpected for it is hard to find and difficult.
Heraclitus
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis
A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage.
Plato
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
Plato
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Plutarch
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
The bee is more honored than other animals not because she labors but because she labors for others.
St. Chrysostom
Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech
Simonides
The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
Socrates
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
Plato
Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.
Kimon Nicolaides
All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain.
Epictetus
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
Xenophon
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded but the fear of pain or death.
Epictetus
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
Plato
Difficulties are things that show what men are.
Epictetus
From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles
Even now I am full of hope but the end lies in God.
Pindar
Try first thyself and after call in God For to the worker God himself lends aid.
Euripides
Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears.
Euripides
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.
Aesop
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand they strain into the future hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
Pindar
Ask not that events should happen as you will but let your will be that events should happen as they do and you shall have peace.
Epictetus
Against necessity against its strength no one can fight and win.
Aeschylus
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
Euripides
Achilles absent was Achilles still.
Homer
Who except the gods can live without any pain?
Aeschylus
Practice yourself for heaven's sake in little things and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus
Nothing great is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom then bear fruit then ripen.
Epictetus
I am often asked a stock question: 'Have you actually read all those books?' To this I have my answer ready: 'Is there anybody who has read all the books in his library?' That would be like claiming to enjoy the incredible luxury and good fortune of being able to accomplish everything in this life that one would wish.
Konstantinos Staikos
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Plato
Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.
Pindar