Quotes by greek authors

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence. Aristotle

Insolence Wit Educated

Education is the best provision for old age. Aristotle

Education Best Age Old Old Age Provision

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses. Heraclitus

Justice Will Lies Witnesses False Overtake

Necessity... the mother of invention. Plato

Mother Invention Necessity

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. Pythagoras

Music Humming Strings Spheres Geometry

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. Aristotle

Possibilities Impossibilities Improbable Probable Preferred

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. Aristotle

Soul Madness Excellent Exempt Mixture

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music. Diogenes

Music Practice Others Virtue Neglect Harp Pleasing Those Insensible Like Always Sound Itself Mouths Which While Who

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. Epictetus

You Soul Corpse Carrying Around Little

The good and the wise lead quiet lives. Euripides

Good Wise Lead Quiet Lives

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. Heraclitus

War God Day Winter Peace Summer Hunger Day And Night Night

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. Homer

Time Good Relationship Heart Other Melt Learned Glow Woe Taught

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them. Hypatia

Great Mind Miracles Pain Relieved Fables Only Poetic Superstitions Through He Myths Perhaps Most Terrible Terrible Thing Accepts Years Tragedy Truths Child Taught After Fantasies Them Should Teach Believes Thing

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. Plato

Democracy Tyranny Out Arises Naturally

There is no success without hardship. Sophocles

Success Without Hardship

The law is reason, free from passion. Aristotle

Law Passion Free Reason

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle

Mind Jobs Degrade Absorb Paid

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. Diogenes

Nature Too Sun Shines Polluted

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. Epicurus

Wisdom Health Soul Age Too Late Weary Old Slow Young Too Late Seek No-One He Nor Search Grown Early

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. Heraclitus

Happiness Envy Lasts Our Those Longer Always Than