Memorable Quotes From Greek Philosophers

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"I think, therefore I am."
René Descartes
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."
Buddha
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."
Socrates
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"In seeking happiness for others, you will find it in yourself."
Plato
"There is a difference between the knowing and the teaching."
Plato
"Education is the best provision for old age."
Aristotle
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"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."
Nathaniel Branden
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
Aristotle
"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
Plato
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man."
Heraclitus
"All is flux, nothing stands still."
Heraclitus
"Wise men say that it is better to lose a man than to lose a friendship."
Epictetus
"Man is in the image of God."
Plato
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others."
Aristotle
"The past should be a springboard, not a hammock."
Ivy Lee (paraphrasing Plato)
"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance."
Plato
"He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything."
Aristotle
"All is flux, nothing stays still."
Heraclitus
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"If you want to be a writer, you must be a reader first."
Plato
"The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture."
Plato
"Nothing great is created suddenly."
Epictetus
"Man is the measure of all things."
Protagoras
"Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control."
Epictetus
"It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
Epictetus
"Know thyself."
Socrates
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
Aristotle
"There is nothing permanent except change."
Heraclitus
"You could not step twice into the same river."
Heraclitus
"The only thing I know is that I know nothing."
Socrates
"All men by nature desire to know."
Aristotle
"Those who know do, those that understand teach."
Aristotle
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time', is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"
Lao Tzu
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"Life must be lived as play."
Plato
"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
Plato
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
"Hope is the dream of a waking man."
Aristotle
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
"No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness."
Aristotle
"Well begun is half done."
Aristotle
"It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace."
Aristotle
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be who we pretend to be."
Socrates
"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys."
Sun Tzu
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Socrates
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
Aristotle
"The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be."
Socrates
"If you want to be a leader you must be a bridge."
Plato
"Justice means minding your own business and not meddling with other men's concerns."
Plato
"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
Plato
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
Joseph Campbell
"Philosophy begins in wonder."
Plato
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"
Lao Tzu
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
Ronald Reagan
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates
"To find yourself, think for yourself."
Socrates
"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."
Socrates
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
Aristotle
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
Aristotle
"The more you know, the more you realize you don't know."
Aristotle
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
Aristotle
"Man is by nature a social animal."
Aristotle
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
Plato
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Plato
"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
Plato
"The sparks of truth often come from the flames of conflict."
Heraclitus
"Change is the only constant in life."
Heraclitus
"You cannot step into the same river twice."
Heraclitus
"All things are in flux, nothing stands still."
Heraclitus
"The character of a man is his fate."
Heraclitus
"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."
Socrates
"An unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates
"Pleasure is the highest good."
Epicurus
"The art of living wisely is the art of living well."
Epicurus
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not."
Epicurus
"It is not what we have, but what we enjoy, that constitutes our abundance."
Epicurus
"Happiness is a state of mind."
Epicurus
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
Socrates
"The good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue."
Aristotle
"The soul is the messenger of the body."
Plato
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