Quotes by Greek authors

More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.

Lucas Papademos

Former Governor of the Bank of Greece

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

Greek philosopher

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

I like Rice Krispie treats. I like Skittles and Snickers.

Giannis Antetokounmpo

Greek-Nigerian professional basketball player

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

Hesiod

Greek poet

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Epictetus

Greek Stoic philosopher

Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.

Flavius Josephus

Roman–Jewish historian and military leader

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Platon

Greek philosopher

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Platon

Greek philosopher

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Homer

Greek poet

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Hippocrates

Greek physician

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Phaedrus

I like to score when I can, but if I can't do that, I like to do the other things - defense, blocking, rebounding.

Giannis Antetokounmpo

Greek-Nigerian professional basketball player

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Greek writer

When I was young and I could dream a bit, I could see myself participating in the slam dunk contest. I've always wanted to experience that.

Giannis Antetokounmpo

Greek-Nigerian professional basketball player

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

fourth son of Noah's son Japheth

Culture makes all men gentle.

Menander

King

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Hippocrates

Greek physician

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