Quotes by greek authors

Freedom is the right to live as we wish. Epictetus

Freedom Wish Live Right

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. Epicurus

Man Power Folly He Obtain Himself Pray Gods Which

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. Euripides

Life Best Great You Wise Man Wise Man Balance Live Way Powers Safest Around Acknowledge Us Really Your Keep Thing

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. Euripides

Will Hundred Soldiers Ten Beat Head Wisely Without Led

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances. Herodotus

Men Rule Circumstances

To do nothing is also a good remedy. Hippocrates

Good Nothing Remedy Also

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer

Man Marriage People Enemies Wife Nothing Eye Admirable See More Delighting House Friends Than Who Keep Two Two People

Bad company corrupts good character. Menander

Good Character Corrupts Bad Good Character Company

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. Menander

Wish Live

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Plato

Truth History Vital Poetry Than Nearer

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. Plato

Life Good You Yourself Though Crop Both Abundant Prosperous Without Cultivation Effort Cannot Land Next Next Life Now Apply

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato

Food Knowledge Soul Surely Said Socrates

Knowledge is true opinion. Plato

Knowledge True Opinion

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. Plato

Lie Say Well Builders Without Stones Lesser Larger

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. Plato

Women Mind Men Men And Women Country Half Practice Nothing State Our Following Prevails More Pursuits Instead Absurd Thus Reduced Than Same Being Whole Strengths

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions. Plato

Education Good Nurture Constitutions Graduation

The wildest colts make the best horses. Plutarch

Best Wildest Horses Make

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

Man Would Would-Be Clay Left Then Fortune Bricks Ever Chance

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. Saint Basil

Remember Power Our Opposite Condition Existence Very Forget Necessary

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles

Happiness Wisdom Part Supreme

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured. Thucydides

Justice Will Those Athens Indignant Come Until Who Injured