Quotes by greek authors

No enemy is worse than bad advice. Sophocles

Enemy Advice Worse Bad Than

God's dice always have a lucky roll. Sophocles

God Always Dice Roll Lucky Chance

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely. Sophocles

Day Win Mark Would Rather Miss Well Than Acting

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. Sophocles

Future Lost Past Young Neglects He Dead Arts Whoever

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. Sophocles

Life Words Care My Life More Make Than Deeds Illustrious

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. Sophocles

One Thing Another Well-Timed Much Thing Speech

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth. Thales

God Birth Ancient All Things Had He Most Things

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything. Thales

Everything Runs Through Intellect Things

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. Thucydides

Legal Men Superior First Seems More Indignation Excited Wrong Cheated Like Equal Looks Than Being Compelled Second Violent

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me. Yanis Varoufakis

Good Me You Advice Everything Once About Marxist Scholar Always Still Sounds Optimistic View Things Two

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. And what you do with music and what is the correct way to write it and what is not the correct way to write it. Yanni

Music Me You Happy School Way Correct Correctly Tell Fingers Write Piano How Am Go Anyone Position

Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment. Xenophon

Injustice Power Increase Those Punishment He Conceal Well His Commanding Escape Did Same Being Order Esteemed Either Them Might Riches Reason Desire Desired

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce. Xenophon

Pleasure Eats He Most Least Requires Who Sauce

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? Aeschylus

Pain Lifetime Without His Gods Apart Length Who Whole

What good is it to live a life that brings pains? Aeschylus

Life Good Live Pains Brings

Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm. Aeschylus

Silence Long Remedy Since Held Harm

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends. Aeschylus

Trust Tyranny Somehow Never Friends Disease

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering. Aeschylus

Justice Learning Suffering Scale Some Through Turns Bringing

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. Aeschylus

Admired Shall He Goes Who