Top 817 Quotes & Sayings by Greek Authors - Page 2

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gradually, decentralized trust will be accepted as a new and effective trust model. We have seen this evolution of understanding before - on the Internet.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves.

Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

No one wants to stoke coal if he can regulate an oil valve instead.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

LeBron James is one of the best players in the league - and one of the best players to ever play the game.

The avant-garde feel important, but they hardly understand what they're doing.

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

The oaths of a woman I inscribe on water.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

I love to dress up. You have to have a sense of fun in life, too. We can all be serious and work and do our bit, but every now and again you have to have a good giggle.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

I started at the piano at the age of 4.

Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'

The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in the hold of the earth. But the more select, the captains, harken to a Siren within them... and royally squander their lives with her.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

My music came right on time. It was romantic Mediterranean music addressed to all the people who wanted to go on holiday.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.

I just spent the last 8 months working on the second edition of 'Mastering Bitcoin,' and I couldn't even scratch the surface of all the innovation that is happening in BTC.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.