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650 Greek Quotes

For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow; it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

Blow Pay Done Suffer
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There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

Time Fear Remain Guardian
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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

Night Conceal Think Behold
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A phantom queen through all the house shall rove; and all the joy doth flee the sculptured forms of beauty once did give; and in the penury of eyes that live, all Aphrodite's grace is lost in empty space.

Queen Beauty Penury Grace
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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

Child Health Soul Dear
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If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.
Walk Crime Death Great
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

Oath Make Believe Man
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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Life Middle Neither Despot
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Out of respect, a man must veil his words when talking with a woman, but with a man he can frankly say whatever's on his mind.

Respect Veil Frankly Mind
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When a man dies, flesh is frayed and broken in the fire, but not his will.

Flesh Man Will Fire
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Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.
Mother Success Wife Security
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No bribes. Nothing that passes under the roof of a temple Or under the roof of the mouth, can appease heaven's anger Or deflect its aim.

Bribe Pass Under Temple
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Let war stay abroad; it makes no difficulty in coming, for the man who will have in him a strong desire for glory. I disapprove of a bird’s battling in its own home.

Make Desire Home Abroad
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In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

Pain Forget Drop Wisdom
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Love Help Who Him
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How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

How Been Battle Far
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Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Gain Sure Certain Love
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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Great How Face Win
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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

From Too Many The
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True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

True Has Happy Love
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Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.

Body Build Keep Hand
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Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied.

Skill Bear May Not
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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Afraid Army Led Not
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Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

Generation Race Constant Courage
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I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

Would Glory Long Life
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Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

Conduct That Fear Wish
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Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame

Risk Thing Price Fame
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There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well;
Something Noble When There
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Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

Learn End Those Still
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When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.

Time Life Back Give
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To one who asked what was the proper time for lunch, he said,

Proper Time Lunch Rich
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Politics End Participate Being
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He whom love touches not walks in darkness.

Whom Love Touch Walk
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Tyrant Enemies Treaty Foreign
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.

Excellence Gift Skill Practice
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Human Behavior Emotions Flows
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It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

Mad Not That Head
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Direction Education Starts Future
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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Absurd Practice Prevails Country
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Nation Curse Sort Action
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the law.

Good Act Law Responsibly
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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Teach Same Work Thing
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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Alive Man Know One
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The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Work Most Part Important
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Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

State Music Change Danger
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The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Soul Next World Culture
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Exercise Harm Body Hold
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

Every Seem Most Desire
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The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Society Describe Grow Reality
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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Free Either Least Know
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