Quotes by greek authors

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. Aesop
Vain Our Strive Well Pray Prayers Heard Expect
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. Aesop
Men Imitation Real Often Real Thing Applaud Thing
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. Anaxagoras
Words Men Live Mine Would Exceedingly Taken Were Quiet Away Thine Two
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. Aristotle
Art Other Telling Telling Lies Lies Poets Chiefly Taught Who Homer
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. Aristotle
Life Old Poverty Young Aid Other Those Out Weakness Mischief Misfortunes Noble True Noble Deeds Prime True Friends Comfort Sure Friends Refuge Deeds Incite Keep
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. Aristotle
Government Best Democracy Equality Liberty Will Thought Alike Some Attained Share Chiefly Persons Found Utmost
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. Democritus
Man Rich Poor Man Himself Makes Little Poor Desiring
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them. Demosthenes
Best People Protection Believe Everything Tell For The People Them Necessarily
I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give. Diogenes
Me You Sunshine Remove Nothing Other Side Would Give Take May Cannot Ask
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. Diogenes
Wise Man Wise Man Takes Discover
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. Epictetus
Death Fear Pain Dreaded
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. Epictetus
Character You Yourself Personality Example Imagination Follow Determine Well Private Model Public Whose Imagine
Much effort, much prosperity. Euripides
Prosperity Effort Much
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. Euripides
Happiness God Will Stay Sails Brief
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. Giorgio de Chirico
Art Strange Men Innocence Distraction Net Wing Mysterious Like Common Which Fleeing Moments Butterflies Fatal
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears. Heraclitus
Eyes Ears Exact More Witnesses Than
Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things. Heraclitus
All Things Couples Discordant Agree Things
A man's character is his guardian divinity. Heraclitus
Character Man Guardian Divinity His
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. Herodotus
Time Will Rest Few Right Time Correct Historian Very Few Things Happen Conscientious Right Things Things Happen Defects
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. Herodotus
Knowledge People See Give More More People Weigh Weight Accomplishments Than May Many Lustre
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one. Hesiod
Good Man Better Wife Nothing Bad Bad One Wins Good Wife Than Again Then
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. Hippocrates
Appropriate Extreme Remedies Very Diseases
I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must. Maria Callas
Enemies Will Down Must Would Knees Make Get Them
While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. Nikos Kazantzakis
Happiness Happy Sometimes Past Difficulty Back Astonishment Only Had Look How Been Being Experiencing Realise While Suddenly Conscious
My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. Nikos Kazantzakis
Battle Has-Been Spirit Anguish Merciless Between Joys Principal Sorrows Wellspring Been Flesh Incessant
What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one! Nikos Kazantzakis
Life Down Meet Alike Miracle Souls How Send Roots Deep
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