Top 817 Quotes & Sayings by Greek Authors - Page 14

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

If you look at the policies that were implemented over the past four years post 2015, these are not really growth oriented policies.

All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.

Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

I absolutely respect and I believe I serve music.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

It's very intimidating to be photographed, but if I kneel down and chat with you, so you're looking down at me, it makes you feel less threatened.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

My main language was music, and my teacher was nature.

It is great to be Greek, because I have one of the best heritages in the world.

Material things don't matter.

I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese.

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.

Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

If I've made money from music, it was never my aim to do that. I didn't do it to become famous.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.