Memorable Quotes From Greek Mythology

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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein
"They are not only idle who do nothing, but those who doing nothing, are busy about it."
Socrates
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
Plato
"This above all: to thine own self be true."
William Shakespeare
"To find yourself, think for yourself."
Socrates
"He who has great power should use it lightly."
Plato
"You cannot step into the same river twice."
Heraclitus
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"Change is the only constant in life."
Heraclitus
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
Plato
"Life must be lived as play."
Plato
"A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave."
Publilius Syrus
"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."
Plato
"The soul never thinks without a picture."
Aristotle
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
Aristotle
"Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant."
Seneca
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Oscar Wilde, quoting Hermes
"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
Buddha, but relevant in a mythological context
"Epictetus said that when we are distressed by the events of life, it is not the events themselves but our thoughts about those events that cause us suffering."
Epictetus
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know."
John Keats, referencing the aesthetic ideals of Greek mythology
"To let others lead the way is to give in to ignorance."
Anonymous, relating to the wisdom of Athena
"With great power comes great responsibility."
Voltaire, but echoes the truth of Zeus' role in mythology
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."
Emily Dickinson, applicable to Pandora's box
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana, reflects the cyclical nature of myths
"Beware Greeks bearing gifts."
Virgil, referring to the Trojan Horse
"Nothing in excess."
Apollo, as inscribed in the Temple of Delphi
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde, echoing the aspirations of characters in mythology
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don’t want to.'"
Lao Tzu, relevant to the myth of Chronos
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller, akin to the adventures of Odysseus
"Change is the only constant."
Heraclitus
"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."
Leo Tolstoy, relating to the ideals espoused in myths
"Character is destiny."
Heraclitus, reflecting the fates of mythic characters
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
Diogenes
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
Confucius
"You should behave instead as if you were a great man, regardless of how others regard you."
Heraclitus
"Evil resides in the hearts of men. Let us not forget this."
Homer
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
Nelson Mandela
"Ambition is the mother of all virtues."
Plato
"A friend to all is a friend to none."
Aristotle
"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know."
Lao Tzu
"The gods help them who help themselves."
Aesop
"He who laughs last, laughs best."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant."
Seneca
"For it is in giving that we receive."
Saint Francis of Assisi
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Søren Kierkegaard
"All that glitters is not gold."
William Shakespeare
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Lao Tzu
"To do is to be."
Socrates
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
Socrates
"Fate is not an eagle; it creeps like a rat."
Elizabeth Bowen
"There is no greater good than to be found worthy of love."
Hera
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself."
Joseph Campbell
"No man is free who is not a master of himself."
Epictetus
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"
Lao Tzu
"The soul is dyed with the color of its thoughts."
Marcus Aurelius
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anaïs Nin
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"The greatest victories are those that go unnoticed."
Athena
"Man is the measure of all things."
Protagoras
"It is not what we have, but what we enjoy, that constitutes our abundance."
Epicurus
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
Aristotle
"The only thing I know is that I know nothing."
Socrates
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
Buddha
"Fortune favors the bold."
Virgil
"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return."
Madeline Miller
"People are not afraid of the dark; they are afraid of the light."
Plato
"Know thyself."
Delphic Maxim
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
Socrates
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates
"To be is to do."
Socrates
"We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience."
John Dewey
"Time will pass, and seasons will come and go."
Horace
"Justice is the bond of men in society."
Plato
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
Plato
"What is dear to you, you should share."
Aesop
"In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous."
Aristotle
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
Aristotle
"All human beings, by nature, desire to know."
Aristotle
"He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."
Plato
"Courage is knowing what not to fear."
Plato
"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
Plato
"A friend is one soul in two bodies."
Aristotle
"All things are full of gods."
Thales
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
Plato
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
Aristotle
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle
"Nothing great is created suddenly."
Epictetus
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
Socrates
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
Confucius
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life."
Mark Twain
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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