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Quotes by Greek Authors
"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
"All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings there's too much corruption in the world."
"Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers."
"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."
"Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men a search for their cause a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement."
"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends."
"To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils."
"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."
"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue."
"I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world."
"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
"Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel."
"My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry."
"An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself."
"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
"The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands."
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