Greek quotes – Wisdom from Ancient Greece

Know thyself – Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution. – Aristotle

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. – Heraclitus

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. – Aristotle

To find yourself, think for yourself. – Socrates

The only true voyage of discovery is not to seek new landscapes, but to have new eyes. – Marcel Proust

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

The greatest wealth is to live content with little. – Plato

Everything in moderation. – Cleobulus

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. – Socrates

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. – Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Plato

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. – Plato

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. – Xenophon

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. – Aristotle

Greek quotes – Wisdom from Ancient Greece part 2

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

The measure of a man is what he does with power. – Plato

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

The greatest penalty of evildoing is to grow into the likeness of bad men. – Plato

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. – Plato

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. – Socrates

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. – Plato

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. – Rumi

The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage. – Thucydides

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. – Thomas Paine

Change is the only constant in life. – Heraclitus

Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates

Life must be lived as play. – Plato

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. – Socrates

We are all fools in love. – Euripides

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil. – Plato

It is not living that matters, but living rightly. – Socrates

The more one knows, the more one realizes one doesn’t know. – Aristotle

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. – Plato

To be idle is a short road to death. – Hesiod

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. – Socrates

Adventure is worthwhile. – Aristotle

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. – Pierre de Coubertin

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. – Socrates

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Socrates

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. – Socrates

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. – Dalai Lama

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle