Greek Quotes, Wise Sayings, Proverbs: Post Here

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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...k_philosophers

List of Ancient Platonists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_Platonists

List of Cynic Philosophers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cynic_philosophers

List of Epicurean Philosophers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...n_philosophers

List of Stoic Philosophers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stoic_philosophers

"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.

Wisdom of Ancient Greece:

The Maxims of Delphi, and the Quotations of the Seven Sages
http://www.scribd.com/doc/72247024/M...Ancient-Greece

List of Greek phrases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_phrases

[Greek Proverbs]
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Greek_proverbs

[Greek Proverbs]
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Greek_proverbs