If anyone knows any good Greek Quotes, Wise Sayings, or Proverbs, post them in here. Anything Greek, from Ancient Philosophers, to Scholars, to anyone, it just has to be from a Greek.
List of Ancient Greek Philosophers
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List of Ancient Platonists
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List of Cynic Philosophers
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List of Epicurean Philosophers
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List of Stoic Philosophers
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"Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock." - Anaxagoras
"Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive." - Nikos Kazantzakis
"The highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!" - Nikos Kazantzakis
"Thought is the fountain of speech." - Chrysippus
"Much effort, much prosperity." - Euripides
“A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.” - Aristotle
“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.” - Aristotle
“Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids” - Aristotle
"Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person." - Aristotle
"Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young." - Aristotle
“Practice yourself for heaven’s sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater” - Epictetus
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." - Epictetus
"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly." - Epictetus
“First say to yourself what would you be; and then do what you have to do” - Epictetus
“Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well” - Epictetus
“It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.” - Epictetus
“Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life” - Epictetus
“A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.” - Epictetus
“The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” - Epicurus
“We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf” - Epicurus
“A short saying oft contains much wisdom” - Sophocles
"A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one." - Heraclitus
"Music is a defining element of character." - Plato
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." - Plato
"Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." - Plato
"Every heart sings an incomplete song, until another heart whispers back." - Plato
"Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them." - Plato
"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue." - Plato
"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful." - Plato
“For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions." - Plato
Actual Quote
"...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance." - Homer
Description Quote
"The star of the waning summer [Seirios, the Dog- Star] who beyond all stars rises bathed in Okeanos (the ocean stream) to glitter with brilliance." - Homer
"Some things you will think of yourself, some things God will put into your mind." - Homer
"Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning." - Antisthenes
"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue." - Antisthenes
“The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education” - Antisthenes
Αγάλι αγάλι φύτευε ο φρόνιμος τ' αμπέλι, κι αγάλι αγάλι γίνονταν η αγουρίδα μέλι.
By degrees the prudent man planted a vineyard; by degrees the green grapes became as sweet as honey. - Greek Proverb
Meaning: Everything comes to him who waits
Το σκοινί το μαλακό, τρώει την πέτρα την ξερή.
The soft rope corrodes the dry stone. - Greek Proverb
Meaning: Using persuasion, one can change strong opinions.