Greek author 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.”

“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”

“Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.”

“Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.”

“I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.”

“There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.”

“Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.”

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”

“If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.”

“An honest man is always a child.”

“One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.”

“The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.”

“By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.”

“Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.”

“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.”

“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”

“The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.”

“Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.”

“Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?”

“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”

“Laws are not made for the good.”

“This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.”

“Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.”

“The more I learn, the less I realize I know.”

“In every person there is a sun. Just let them shine.”