12 Greek Philosophers in English and their 536 Quotes in Categories
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12 Greek Philosophers in English ( 01 Antisthenes, 02 Aristotle, 03 Democritus, 04 Diogenes, 05 Epictetus, 06 Epicurus, 07 Heraclitus, 08 Julius Caesar, 09 Plato, 10 Plutarch, 11 Protagoras, 12 Socrates ) and their 536 Quotes in Categories:
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Categories:
Accidents Quotes, Achievement Quotes, Action Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Advice Quotes, Affection Quotes, Age And Aging Quotes, Anger Quotes, Anticipation Quotes, Anxiety Quotes, Appearance Quotes, Art Quotes, Aspirations Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Awareness Quotes,
Brave Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Best Friends Quotes, Bigotry Quotes, Blessings Quotes, Blush Quotes,
Causes Quotes, Character Quotes, Change Quotes, Choice Quotes, Citizens Quotes, Communication Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Conflict Quotes, Consciousness Quotes, Consumed Quotes, Courage Quotes, Creativity Quotes,
Danger Quotes, Democracy Quotes, Desire Quotes, Difficulty Quotes, Disease Quotes, Dishonesty Quotes, Distrust Quotes,
Education Quotes, Energy Quotes, Envy Quotes, Equality Quotes, Expression Quotes. Evil Quotes, Eyes Quotes,
Faith Quotes, Famous Quotes, Fear Quotes, Finance Quotes, Fire Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Friends Or Friendship Quotes,
Genius Quotes,
Happiness Quotes, Harmony Quotes, Heart Quotes, History Quotes, Humility Quotes,
Illusion Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Income Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Intelligence And Intellectuals Quotes, Irish Dramatist Quotes,
Justice Quotes,
Knowledge Quotes,
Law Quotes, Learning Quotes, Legal Quotes, Life Quotes, Living Quotes, Love Quotes,
Medical Quotes, Men Quotes, Motivational Quotes,
Nature Quotes,
Parenting Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Power Quotes, Praise Quotes,
Revenge Quotes,
Soul Quotes, Success Quotes,
Tyranny Quotes,
Universe Quotes,
Wealth Quotes, Wedding Quotes, Wisdom Quotes,
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1
"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Anger Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."
Author: Churchill Quotes Category: Courage Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Motivational Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Only the educated are free."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Love Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Motivational Quotes Company Quotes
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2
"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Friends Or Friendship Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Anxiety Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Education Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Drunk Quotes
"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Heart Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Disease Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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3
"Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Energy Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Education Quotes Music Quotes
"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Friends Or Friendship Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Famous Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Citizens Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Famous Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Brave Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Anger Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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4
"How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Desire Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Genius Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Awareness Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Famous Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Most people would rather give than get affection."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Affection Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Equality Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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5
"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Attitude Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The secret to humor is surprise."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Humorous Quotes
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Job Quotes
"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Causes Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Power Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Confidence Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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6
"A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Advice Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Courage Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Philosophy is the highest music."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Brave Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Democracy Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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7
"Friendship is essentially a partnership."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Insults Quotes
"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Education Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes Moms Quotes
"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Power Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"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."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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8
"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."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Aspirations Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Courage Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Difficulty Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Income Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Best Friends Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Inspirational Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Education Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Power Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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9
"A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Accidents Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Anticipation Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Character Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Distrust Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Imagination Quotes Character Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Choice Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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10
"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Friends Or Friendship Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Soul Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Fire Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Justice Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"God has entrusted me with myself."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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11
"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."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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12
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Art Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He who hath many friends hath none."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The end of labor is to gain leisure."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A man's character is his fate."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The way up and the way down are one and the same."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Advice Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Action Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Nature Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Consciousness Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Equality Quotes Democracy Quotes
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"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Education is the best provision for old age."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Age And Aging Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Expression Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: History Quotes Difficulty Quotes
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Education Quotes Music Quotes
"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Adversity Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Character Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Love is a serious mental disease."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Wealth Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Democracy Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Anger Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Appearance Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Dishonesty Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: History Quotes Poetry Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Living Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Famous Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Be as you wish to seem."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Desire Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"An honest man is always a child."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Famous Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Nature Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Courage Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes Famous Quotes
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Famous Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Beauty Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"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."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Revenge Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Evil Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Blessings Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Illusion Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Famous Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Beauty Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Life Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Fear Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Wedding Quotes Advice Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Anger Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He was a wise man who invented beer."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Achievement Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Fear Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Philosophy Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Advice Quotes Friends Or Friendship Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Law Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Wit is educated insolence."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Education Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Humility Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"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."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Art Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Parenting Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Democracy passes into despotism."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Democracy Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Life must be lived as play."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Life Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Courage is a kind of salvation."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Courage Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Man - a being in search of meaning."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Love Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Faith Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"They certainly give very strange names to diseases."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Medical Quotes, Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Tyranny Quotes, Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Action Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Science is nothing but perception."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Knowledge is true opinion."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Knowledge Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"It is right to give every man his due."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"States are as the men, they grow out of human characters."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Character is simply habit long continued."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Poetry Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Character is long-standing habit."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Fate Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Evil Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"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."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Neither blame or praise yourself."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Praise Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Living Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Soul Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Age And Aging Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Bad men are full of repentance."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Well begun is half done."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The soul never thinks without a picture."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Change in all things is sweet."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Change Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Nature Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Hope is the dream of a waking man."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All men by nature desire to know."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If you wish to be a writer, write."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"There is nothing good or evil save in the will."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Success Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Freedom is the right to live as we wish."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No man is free who is not master of himself."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Happiness Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Finance Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No great thing is created suddenly."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Creativity Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Communication Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Freedom Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet,than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All men by nature desire knowledge."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Silence is safer than speech."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No one loves the man whom he fears."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The law is reason, free from passion."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"There is no harm in repeating a good thing."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Legal Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Necessity... the mother of invention."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Irish Dramatist Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Men Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Inspirational Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"The beginning is the chiefest part of any work."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"One man cannot practice many arts with success."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Hope is a waking dream."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Inspirational Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Friends Or Friendship Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Anger Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Your silence gives consent."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Attention to health is life greatest hindrance."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Fitness Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Nature does nothing uselessly."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher and that is a good thing for any man."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He has the most who is most content with the least."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"It takes a wise man to discover a wise man."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Intelligence And Intellectuals Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Stand a little less between me and the sun."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The great thieves lead away the little thief."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The mob is the mother of tyrants."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship."
Author: Epicurus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Love Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"For good nurture and education implant good constitutions."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I shall assume that your silence gives consent."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I would fain grow old learning many things."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The good is the beautiful."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The wisest have the most authority."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The wildest colts make the best horses."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
Author: Socrates Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly."
Author: Plutarch Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Nature does nothing in vain."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going."
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?"
Author: Epictetus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."
Author: Plato Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."
Author: Aristotle Quotes Category: Integrity Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."
Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."
Author: Austen Quotes Category: Affection Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome."
Author: Caesar Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Envy Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion."
Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Consumed Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."
Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Change alone is unchanging."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Men Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Universe Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Bigotry is the sacred disease."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Bigotry Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Nature is wont to hide herself."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Nature Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Eyes Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Nothing endures but change."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"Much learning does not teach understanding."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Learning Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Character is destiny."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Character Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Desire Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"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."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue."
Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults."
Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing."
Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning."
Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Education Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Blushing is the color of virtue."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Blush Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Big results require big ambitions."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"You cannot step twice into the same river; for other waters are continually flowing in."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"You cannot step into the same river twice."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"There is nothing permanent except change."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The art of measurement, by showing us the truth would have brought our soul into the repose of abiding by the truth, and so would have saved our life."
Author: Protagoras Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Danger Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Harmony Quotes, Greek Philosopher Quotes
"A man's character is his guardian divinity."
Author: Ephesus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind."
Author: Protagoras Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things to them unwillingly."
Author: Protagoras Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all."
Author: Protagoras Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves."
Author: Protagoras Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it."
Author: Haney Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Men should strive to think much and know little."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I would rather discover a single causal connection than win the throne of Persia."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."
Author: Democritus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
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"I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be."
Author: Diogenes Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool."
Author: Sinope Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Modesty is the color of virtue."
Author: Sinope Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"The sun is new each day."
Author: Heraclitus Quotes Category: Greek Philosopher Quotes
"No man is hurt but by himself"
Author: Sinope Quotes Category: Conflict Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
"Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive."
Author: Antisthenes Quotes Category: Imagination Quotes Greek Philosopher Quotes
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