Greece Quotes

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Stand a little less between me and the sun.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
The great thieves lead away the little thief.
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.
Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
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.
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
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