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650 Greek Quotes

Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

Fate Terrible power Cannot escape By wealth
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What greater wound is there than a false friend?

Greater wound False friend
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A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

A soul Kind Intend justice Discovers
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Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Truly Tell lies Not honorable Truth entails
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Success is dependent on effort.

Success Is dependent On effort
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A lie never grows old.

A lie Never grow Old
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

No happiness No wisdom
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For Time calls only once, and that determines all.

Time calls Only once Determines all
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I have no love for a friend who loves in words alone.

No love A friend Words alone
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Count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.

Count No man Happy He dies
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Always desire to learn something useful.

Always desire To learn Something useful
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Reason is God's crowning gift to a man.

Reason God's crowing Gift A man
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Those swift to think are not always secure.

Swift To think Always secure
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The good leader repeats the good news, keeps the worst to himself.

Good leader Repeats Good news Keeps
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That will come when it comes; we must deal with all that lies before us.The future rests with the ones who tend the future.

The future rests The ones Who tend
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Only a fool could be in love with death.

A fool In love With death
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Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

Death Evils Come We
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The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

Wealth Nature Ideals Infinity
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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
Happiness Life Important Friends
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Death Exist Come Longer
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It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

Friends Help Confident Knowledge
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You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Develop Courage Happy Relationships
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Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

What Enjoy Constitutes Abundance
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

Man Pray Power Obtain
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The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Art Living well Dying One
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If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

Prayers Men Humankind Evils
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He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

He Peace Mind Another
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not

Spoil Have Desiring
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Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Empty Argument Relieve Human
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We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

Pursue Happiness Present Absent
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Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

Nothing Sufficient Person Little
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Don't fear the gods, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure.

Fears Worry Death Endure
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To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.

Eat Friend Devour Lion
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We need to set our affections on one good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.

Need Affections Good man Live
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The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are meted out to the evil and the greatest of blessings to the good.

Opinions People Gods Evil
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We must laugh and philosophize and manage our households and look after our other affairs all at the same time, and never stop proclaiming the words of the true philosophy.

Laugh Philosophize Affairs Words
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The most important consequence of self-sufficiency is freedom.

Important Consequence Freedom
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If a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity

Person Fights Senses Genuine
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Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.

Vain Word Heal Man
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When you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body

You Die Mind Body
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Therefore, foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

Foolish Fear Death Pain
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The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

Noble man Wisdom Friendship Mortal
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The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future

Life Gratitude Fears Future
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All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

Friendship Desirable Need Help
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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Free Fear Rich Trouble
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Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
Moderate Joys Life Abundance
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it

Greater Difficulty More Glory
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If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

Wish Rich Money Desires
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The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Time Withdraw Yourself Crowd
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He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.

He Least Needs Tomorrow
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