Greece Quotes

In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.
In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs.
It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods.
It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.
Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, even so the rule of one man, if in all things it has an eye to the common welfare, is democracy.
Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.
My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.
Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.
O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.
O ye gods, grant unto me to have little and to want nothing.
Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.
The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.
The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice, will send him away, surely, after crowning him, not with golden crowns, but with all sorts of blessings.
Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.
You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt.
I am fully aware of the critical moments we face as a country.
If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.
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