Greek Quotes

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

But time growing old teaches all things.

Time brings all things to pass.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.