Quotes on Ancient Greek

The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Come back with your shield - or on it

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

What I wanted was to die among strangers, untroubled, beneath a cloudless sky. And yet my desire differed from the sentiments of that ancient Greek who wanted to die under the brilliant sun. What I wanted was some natural, spontaneous suicide. I wanted a death like that of a fox, not yet well versed in cunning, that walks carelessly along a mountain path and is shot by a hunter because of its own stupidity.

There is nothing permanent except change.