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Quotes by Greek Authors
"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
"It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest."
"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."
"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
"The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age."
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
"That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life."
"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
"When you want something very dearly, you make the time."
"I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors."
"If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions."
"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything."
"We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present."
"Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive."
"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."
"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."
"It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all."
"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."
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