Top 817 Quotes & Sayings by Greek Authors - Page 3

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

The present will not long endure.

Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.

Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark.

Even God lends a hand to honest boldness.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.

I always wanted to be the underdog. For me, as a portrait photographer, it's the kiss of death to become well known. I did my best work when no one knew who I was. People weren't threatened by me because they didn't think I was a big deal.

Bad company corrupts good character.

Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

I see myself as a student. Trying to learn everything.

Only the educated are free.

Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Character is simply habit long continued.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

There is absolutely no doubt about it, and I may not be the one that does it, but the cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen.

I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe's democratization.

To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.

Men create the gods in their own image.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.