Quotes by greek authors

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. Epictetus
Freedom Wish Nothing Live Else Than Anything Anything Else Right
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed. Epicurus
Justice Kind Compact Harm Harmed
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. Epicurus
Understanding Please Pleased Never Knew Learn Did Rabble Them Far Desired
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. Euripides
Future Learning Youth Past Neglects Dead Loses His
Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides. Euripides
Better Benefit Sides Better Chance Both Both Sides Joint Stand Chance
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. Euripides
Marriage Girl Husband Beauty Fine Qualities Keep
Impudence is the worst of all human diseases. Euripides
Worst Diseases Impudence Human
Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. George Papandreou
Government Confidence Legal Corruption Money Political Pay Consequences State Our System Enterprises Citizens Nepotism Undermined Government Agencies Legal System Political System Unfortunately Public Agencies Taxes Many Wasting Widespread
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. Heraclitus
Better Harmony Hidden Obvious Than
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. Herodotus
Fear Better Half Cowardly Evils Run Risk Remain Noble Subject Anticipate Than Being Happen Might Boldness
It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. Hippocrates
Important More Know Than Person Disease Far
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will. Hippocrates
Will Fire Heal Does Medicines
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. Homer
Great Worth Difficulty Find Friend Die Dying
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. Homer
Man Cause Country Omen Sign Draws Without His Brave Brave Man Ask Sword
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. Maria Callas
Teacher Best Good Great Pupil Good Teachers Between Great Teachers Make Foresee Difference Ends Means Teachers
Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it. Nikos Kazantzakis
Happiness Water Simple Everyday Miracle Like Aware
May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again! Nikos Kazantzakis
God Me You Dangerous Will Control Release Run Sly Shameless Open Alphabet Terribly How Demons Off Frighten Get Forgive Forgive Me May Again Them Ever Letters
Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us. Nikos Kazantzakis
Nothing Beneath Our Earth Feet Within Than Heaven Us Nearer Tread
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. Nikos Kazantzakis
You Beauty Merciless Look Looks Does Forgive
Everything in this world has a hidden meaning. Nikos Kazantzakis
World Everything Hidden Meaning
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it. Pericles
Wealth Poverty Admit About Something Properly Rather Shame No-One Taking Practical Real Escape Than Regard Ashamed Boast Used Measures Need
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. Plato
Good Nature Man Will Evil Human Nature Evils No-One He Greater Human Prefer Might Choose Less Compelled Two
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine. Plato
Soul Eyes Vision Unable Divine Endure Multitudes
Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good. Plato
Good Say Over Repeat Review They Say Twice
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. Plato
Best Man Victory First Defeat Worst Himself Another Hands Sustains Which Gains Victories Lowest Each Each Man Defeats
The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. Plato
Will Poverty Community Neither Noblest Principles Always Nor Which Riches
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