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650 Greek Quotes

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Between Ignorant Living Corpse
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Differ Much Dead Living
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Energy Mind Essence Life
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Master Metaphor Genius Perception
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The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

Happy Life Virtue Amusement
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Ideal Bear Dignity Grace
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Perfect Middle Control Class
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Exclusive Sign Knowledge Power
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
Proof Know Able Teach
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Root Bitter Fruit Sweet
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Grip Danger Present Aware
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Ultimate Life Power Survival
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Worse Make Thing Equal
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Reason Mother Devote Children
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Children Honor Produce Educate
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Conscious Perceive Own Existence
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To love someone is to identify with them.
Love Identify Someone Them
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Express Common Wise People
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Live Deed Breath Figure
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We make war that we may live in peace.
Make War May Peace
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Neither Coward Rash Courage
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Praise Person Moment Length
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Delight Solitude Wild Beast
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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases

Eminent Philosophy Extent Affect
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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
Love Wicked Obey Fear
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Wish Friend Work Fruit
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You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

World Courage Quality Honor
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The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives by suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, nothing tells us how things really are, nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

Truth Speak. Force Declare
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But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

Block Doth Stand Fath
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In visions of the night, like dropping rain, descend the many memories of pain.
Vision Night Descend Pain
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And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.

Fate Wine Tear Rigid
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When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?

Black Mortal Blood Ground
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I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil.
Would Rather Ignorant Evil
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Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

Courage Climb Last Long
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Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

Unjustly Hate Death Against
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Thing One Wise Seem
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My will is mine ... I shall not make it soft for you.

Will Mine Make Soft
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Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Word Are Mind Disease
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I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Own Being Purge Schooled
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Old men are always young enough to learn.
Old Always Young Learn
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The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

Gaze Young Escape Mark
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The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

Shape Strain Song Triumph
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Whoever is just willingly and without compulsion will not lack happiness; he will never be utterly destroyed.

Just Lack Utter Destroy
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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Respect Altar Profit Foot
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Easy Foot Calamity Advice
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God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

God Mortal Cause Destroy
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Nought is there in wealth that serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

Wealth Subtle Doom Destiny
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A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

Wound Pierce Doth Pace
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His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

Resolve Not Seem Best
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