Quotes by greek authors

Character is destiny. Heraclitus

Character Destiny

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Socrates

Tyranny Beauty Short-Lived

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Socrates

Good You Endeavor Reputation Way Good Reputation Gain Appear Desire

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. Aeschylus

Hate More Spit Learned Than Disease Traitors Treachery

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. Aristotle

Work Friendship Fruit Slow Wishing Quick Friends

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. Epictetus

Impossible Learn Knows Begin Which Thinks

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. Nikos Kazantzakis

Hope Fear Free Nothing Am

The greatest pleasure of life is love. Euripides

Life Love Pleasure Greatest Greatest Pleasure

Only the educated are free. Epictetus

Motivational Free Only Educated

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. Aesop

Be Brave Distance Easy Safe Brave

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. Nikos Kazantzakis

Eyes Darkness Gaze Real Real Meaning Meaning Meaning Of Enlightenment

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. Plato

Angry Anger Never Person Cannot Should Help Things Two

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. Aristotle Onassis

Women World Money Would Exist Meaning

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. Socrates

Man Injustice Evil Ought Him Return However Account Any Much Who Injured Suffered Injury Right

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock. Aristotle

God always strives together with those who strive. Aeschylus

Motivational God Together Those Strive Always Who

The soul never thinks without a picture. Aristotle

Soul Picture Never Without Thinks

Well begun is half done. Aristotle

Brainy Half Well Begun Done