Quotes on Greek Philosopher

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You're dead, yet alive. There's no sensation so exquisite.

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.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul

My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.