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Quotes by Greek Authors
"We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life."
"And since all things have been named light and night and things corresponding to their powers for each, everything is full alike of light and invisible night, both equal since nothing has a share in neither."
"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them."
"But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere."
"Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men."
"The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all."
"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
"You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of."
"Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions."
"For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be."
"Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice."
"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."
"Two friends-two bodies with one soul inspired."
"No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil."
"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."
"Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe."
"If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked."
"Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?"
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