Greek Quotes

The difficulty of learning the dead languages does not arise from any superior abstruseness in the l...

The signs of the old flame, I know them well.I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me downo...

the dank night is sweeping down from the skyand the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the seaand what slows down the nights to a ...

...She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like ...

The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golde...

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

Sappho isn't really meant to be read. It's meant to be sung and there were dances for the songs, als...

Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason ...

Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry...

Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of...

Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on ...

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only ga...

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to...

I’m relieved to seethat even brilliant physicists make mistakes.”Kohler looked over. “What do you me...

If a Greek woman tells you to do something, you do it.

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the ...

It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you ...

…Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. F...

But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own countr...

One of the most interesting histories of what comes of rejecting science we may see in Islam, which ...

The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schoo...

Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table l...

Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, ...

Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form the...

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had ...

Call no man happy until he is dead.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes