Wisdom Proverbs by Ancient Greek Philosophers

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BITTER

GREED

JUSTICE

FAMILY

MIND

SOLDIERY

LOVE

STARTERS

SCIENCE

COURAGE

WILLINGNESS TO WORK

FLATTERY.SKIN

BEHAVIORS

TROUBLES

STATE ADMINISTRATION

FRIENDSHIP

EDUCATION

ENTERTAINMENT

CRITICISM

VIRTUE

DEFERMENT

EQUALITY

MARRIAGE

DIFFERENCES

PRIVACY

BEAUTY

INJUSTICE

ERRORS

CALUMNY

OLD AGE

HUMAN BEING

REQUESTS

FATE

WOMEN

LAWS

THE ART OF SPEAKING

FEAR

EVIL

HOSPITALITY

HAPPINESS

ANGER

ADVICE

MEASURE

DEATH

PRAISE

FREEDOM

COMMON SENSE

HEALTH

ART

LUCK

POEM

FAME

GODS

EXPERIENCE

HOPE

LIE

VOW

TIME

TASTES

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BITTER

The tears and cries of grief soothe those who are in pain.
Euripides, Troades

Your joy should be limited, and your pain should be calm. Because all your life will be mixed with joy and pain.
Phaidros

GREED

A person who does not feel sorry for what he does not have, but rejoices in what he has, is not greedy.
Democritus, [Anthologia Stobaiou]

Those who do not like their own country and go to other provinces (countries) are not liked there because they are foreigners, and they will not be among them again because they despise their own citizens.
Aisopos

How beautiful it is not to need any of the superfluous things, and not to be deprived of anything that is necessary.
Plutarch, Moralia

Want to win, but always with god.
Sophocles, Ajax

He who covets someone else’s property deserves to lose his property.
Phaidros

The poor perish when they try to be like the rich
Phaidros

Let’s all be happy and content… Let’s live the years written on our foreheads. Let us not try to obtain more than fate bestows on the mortal.
Phaidros, Appendix Perottina

Greed is immoral and unjust.
Plato, Gorgias

Do you entrust a good to a greedy person, and then there is no good left of that property?
Aisopos

A child; He puts his hand in a narrow-mouthed container containing hazelnuts and figs, fills his palm as much as he can take, and when it swells so much, he cannot get his hand out and starts crying. Baby, let go of it, you can take your hand out quite full again… That’s the kid! You want it so badly and you don’t get it all. If you want less, then what you want is yours.
Epictetus

JUSTICE

Justice contains all kinds of virtue.
Theognis, (Aristotle, Ethic Nicomacheia)

A just person is not only one who does not commit injustice, but also one who does not do it even though he has the opportunity.
Philemon, [Anthologia Stobaiou]

Justice is when we do what is necessary, and injustice is when we do not do what is necessary and go astray.
Democritus, [Anthologia Stobaiou]

If the things that someone does happen to them, that’s true justice.
Aristotle, Ethic Nicomacheia

If we are going to make a mistake, it is better to release a criminal than to ruin someone unjustly; Because the first is just a mistake, but ruining someone unjustly is a great disrespect for religion and social values
Antiphon, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

Never let ignorant people make judgments.
Phokylides, Gnomai

I’m afraid to say anything important until it’s clear whether he’s right or wrong.
Pindaros, Nemeonikai

Ask for right, not self-interest.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

Don’t put your children, your life, or anything else above the law.
Plato, Criton

Be fair to friends and strangers alike.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

It is my duty to defend my rights.
Euripides, Iphigeneia he en Aulidi

FAMILY

Both the eldest and the youngest of mortals love their children. Despite the difference in wealth and poverty between them, human beings are fond of their children.
Euripides, Herakies

Discord between siblings arises from their excessive love or ambition for their own home. I hate such kinship that hurts each other.
Euripides, Iphigeneia he en Aulidi

If there is one thing that is painful, it is being deprived of one’s children.
Euripides, Iphigeneia he en Aulidi,

Show that you are worthy of your parents.
Periandros of Corinthus

Treat your parents the way you want your children to treat you.
Isocrates, Pros Demonikon

MIND

Uranos and the Titans, sons of the earth. I tried in vain to appease them, and in their pride they despised compromise, thinking that we can overcome strength with strength. Yet how many times has my mother, Themis or Gaia, my mother, who has all sorts of names, told me with her foresight; He said that the future times are won by reason, not by force.
Aiskhyios, Prometheus Desmotes

Your mind has caused you troubles that will not happen, it has puzzled you: now you cannot find a cure for your own troubles, like a physician who has fallen ill.
Aiskhylos, Prometheus Desmotes

If the mind that will make everything right goes astray, who will put it in its right?
Epictetus

SOLDIERY

War is the father of all things and the king of all things. He deifies some, makes others ordinary people; it enslaves some and frees others.
Heraclitus

Those who die in battle are honored by both gods and humans.
Heraclitus

If the soldier is to stand guard, not to seize the property of his friends, and to march on the enemy without sulking, he must fear his own general rather than the enemy.
Xenophon, Anabasis

An army that has no power to work enjoys bad and ugly gossip.
Euripides, Iphigeneia he en Aulidi

You know that it is neither numerical superiority nor strength that wins victory in war; Those who march most resolutely against the enemy with the help of the gods seldom find an enemy who defies them. Gentlemen! I have seen that those who want to protect their lives by resorting to all means in battles almost always die cowardly, but on the contrary, those who believe that death is inevitable and something that happens to every human being, and who fight to die with dignity, often reach old age more often than others and spend the rest of their lives happier. Those of us who believe in these principles need to show courage and encourage others in such a difficult and dangerous situation.
Xenophon, Anabasis

Then Sulla dismounted, and, taking a flag in his hand, rode towards the enemies among the fleeing (soldiers), and cried out: ‘O Romans, it is an honour for me to die here; To those who ask where you left your commander, don’t forget to say in Orkhomenos. These words changed the sentiments of his soldiers, and two of the cohorts on the right flank rushed to Sulla’s aid
Plutarch, Bioi Paralleloi, (Sulla)

For a warrior… At the beginning of the main duty of valor, to stay in place with fortitude, without even blinking an eye… to see the army attacking him.
Euripides, Heracles

The armored warrior is a slave to his armor; If he has heartless friends in his line, he falls victim to the cowardice of those who are with him, and is crushed. Once his spear is broken, he can no longer escape death, because he has no other weapon to protect himself. However, he who is adept at shooting arrows has the unique advantage of shooting thousands of arrows to protect others from death; standing at a distance, he repels enemies who see that the blunt arrows will surely injure them; He does not endanger his body against the enemy at all, he remains safe.
Euripides, Heracles

Securing oneself in battle and harming the enemy is also the greatest skill…
Edrimides, Heracles

Don’t be fooled by the enemy making him look down, he is meant to ambush you and defeat you easily.
Aisopos

If you don’t fight a battle that you can’t win, you’re invincible.
Epictetus

LOVE

There is nothing more powerful than love.
Menandros, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

Those who are adept in love do not praise their lovers unless they have achieved something, unless they are sure of the end.
Plato, Lysis, O

What makes those who want to live well live well throughout their lives? Relatives? No. Glory is honor? No. Is it wealth? No. Neither this nor that, nothing can make a person live as beautifully as love.
Plato, Symposion

Rather than lay down his arms and run away in front of his beloved, the man who loves tolerates disgrace to the whole army, and even to die… Leaving his lover alone, not coming to his aid when he is in danger is not what even the most cowardly man can do… This is the power that love gives to those who love.
Plato, Symposion

Let no one resist love. Whoever resists him makes the gods his enemies…
Plato, Symposion

What we call a fond is a man who falls into love for the middle goods, who loves the body more than the soul. This love does not last long, because what is loved is not permanent. What he really loves, the body of the beloved, does not wither like a flower, and love flies away with words and vows. He who loves a person because he is beautiful on the inside loves him for life, because he is constantly attached to something…
Plato, Symposion

STARTERS

The beginning is half the battle… And we all always praise a good start.
Plato, Nomoi

On a circle, both the beginning and the end are in the same place.
Heraclitus

Those who are thrown into a job without thinking about it not only fail to do it, but also make everyone laugh at them.
Aisopos

SCIENCE

He is fortunate to deal with science, exhaust himself, research. He does not think about harming the citizens, he never reaches the point of injustice. He looks at the endless order of nature, does not take his eyes off it, and asks where and how this universe was born. Such a person is clean and spotless, free from evil and suspicion.
Euripides, Fragment

Among what we have, only knowledge is immortal and sacred.
Plutarch, Ethica, E

All human beings, by nature, desire to know.
Aristotle, Metaphysika I

If blindness is a bad thing for the blind, ignorance is just as bad for the uneducated.
Plutarch, Bioi Paralleloi, (Lysandros)

If there’s one thing I know, it’s that I don’t know anything.
Socrates (Plato, Apologia, B)

COURAGE

Many brave actions are born out of necessity.
A tragedia by» trailer

God also helps courage shown in place and on time.
Menandros, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

DESIRE TO WORK

Nothing beautiful is achieved effortlessly.
Sophoklesh, Elektra

Employees have herds and gold; They endear themselves to the gods by working. It’s not working, it’s not working.
Hesiod, Erga kai Hemerai

If you turn your eyes and look at the many events that are happening around you, you will understand how effective effort and effort are. This is just like how water droplets carve rocks over time and gradually.
Plutarch, Moralia

Cowardice arises from inactivity and laziness, and courage arises from toil and toil.
Hippocrates, Fairy Aeron Hydaton Topon

It is utterly absurd for a person to do things that are beyond his power.
Sophocles, Antigone

FLATTERY

Everyone is his first and greatest sycophant.
Plutarch, Moralia

It is better to be among the crows than to fall among the sycophants; for crows eat the carcasses of the dead, while sycophants destroy the souls of men while they are alive.
Anthistenes, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

BEHAVIORS

Don’t be so gentle with me that I don’t want you to.
Aiskhylos, Prometheus Desmotes

Don’t do to others what you get angry about when others do it to you.
Isocrates, Pros Niochlea

Fair people are tolerant.
Plato, Gorgias

There are some people who are very arrogant about themselves, who are proud of themselves, who try to criticize those who are much stronger than them, and when they see them move, you see that they immediately turn back.
Aisopos

It is customary, the despised person does exactly what he repays.
Phaidros

We don’t see our flaws, but we suddenly become moral teachers, let alone others, who are willing to commit crimes.
Phaidros

Man must forgive the one who commits a crime by chance. But I think the one who deliberately harms should be punished in every way.
Phaidros

Instead of looking at those who are stronger than oneself and beating them, let them look at those who are weaker than themselves and take solace in them, it is better
Aisopos

Once there is no limit for those who have crossed the limit…
Epictetus

When there is nothing to laugh about, only a fool laughs.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

Have you ever said to emulate the powerful, the greats… Your efforts will be wasted and you will make everyone laugh at you.
Aisopos

The jealous person is his own enemy; Because he is constantly under the influence of his own created sorrows
Menandros, Trailer

There are many people who, when they fail to do what they set out to do because of incompetence, immediately try to denigrate it.
Aisopos

Mind your own business and don’t mess with what others do.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

Call those who love you to your table, not those who do not love you. Have more neighbors you call… If something happens to him, the neighbors immediately come to his aid.
Hesiod, Erga kai Hemerai

Dude, why are you walking like you’ve swallowed a cane? -This is how I behave in order to be envied by all those I meet on the street, and to hear from right and left: “Here is a great philosopher”.- Who are you that you want them to envy? Aren’t they what you call crazy? Do you want crazy people to envy you? Oh, O big madman!
Epictetus

TROUBLES

Why don’t I throw myself off this rock? I will fall and get rid of all the troubles. It’s better to die suddenly than to suffer cowardly every day.
Aiskhylos, Prometheus Desmotes

Voluntary distress makes it easier to endure unintentional distress.
Democritus

To this day, no one has ever been born without problems.
Euripides, Iphigeneia he enAulidi

There is no evil worse for people than sorrow.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

When Socrates was asked, how can a person spend his life without being sad; ‘It’s impossible, because in a house or
He replied that it is impossible for someone who lives in the city and meets people not to be upset.
Socrates, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

A sweet word cures sorrow.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

Endure, my heart, and remember that you have endured far more despicable things.
Homer, The Odyssey

STATE ADMINISTRATION

Human beings have a structure that is suitable for establishing a state due to their nature.
Aristotle, Politics

Worship, beg, fawn over the lord of the day… I don’t care at all. While he is in his hands, he can do whatever he wants, hang it and cut it: it won’t last long because… Reign
Aiskhylos, Prometheus Desmotes

The establishment and unshakability of the most important and indispensable methods necessary for the happiness of the city (the state) and the exercise of virtue depends on their incorporation into customs through the education given to the citizens; The result obtained by force will not be solid. Because through education, which instills in everyone the order established by the legislator, young people will do everything with a conscious will.
Plutarch, Lycurgos

Peoples do not easily listen to those who are incapable of governing them: obedience depends on the value of the one who commands; He who guides well makes himself better watched. Just as the art of riding is to make the horse fit comfortably to the bridle, so the art of kingship is to know how to subordinate men.
Plutarch, Lycurgos

There is no wisdom left in a state that indulges itself in impropriety and bad advice.
Euripides, Heracles

Citizens do not act willingly under the command of a master; Because they work for a master. Yet free
When they do, they vigorously defend what has become their own self-interest.
Herodotus, Historiai

A state must submit to laws, not absolute rulers. If this is not the case, it will not be good for those who want everyone to submit to their will, nor for those who do, or for their children, or for their children’s children. Those who want to make such gains are mean, vulgar souls.
Plato, Epistolai

He who seeks what will be best for himself and his country, even if he suffers because of it, will come to a right and beautiful end. None of us are immortal.
Plato, Epistolai

The character of the rulers is the same as that of the governed.
Isocrates, Pros Niochlea

There is no greater evil than anarchy. This disrupts both states and homes.
Sophocles, Antigone

Power is obtained either by the love of the people or by money.
Sophocles, Oedipous Tyrannos

When Socrates was asked which city was ruled illegally, he replied that it was the city where the administrators were chosen from certain groups.
Socrates, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

You should leave the affairs of the state not richer, but with a greater reputation. Because the praise of the people is much more valuable than money.
Isocrates, Pros Demonikon

Only when you learn to be managed can you be able to manage.
Solon, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

The uncultured people often fall under the yoke of a tyrant.
Solon, Trailer

In a change of power, the poor people often only change their masters.
Phaidros, I

The mass of the people is a terrible scourge.
Euripides, Iphigeneia he enAulidi

Polyheadedness is not good, one person must be the master.
Homer, Ilias

If the citizens think that they should spend everything in a frenzy, and that they should be engaged in nothing but eating and drinking, devoting all their efforts to the riots of love, no law, no matter how good, can make a state comfortable.
Plato, Epistolai

Lykurgos immediately set about drafting a constitution that would change the system altogether, believing in the necessity of establishing a whole new regime: just as in order to change the condition of a corrupt body afflicted with various diseases, using harsh medicines and laxatives to expel bad fluids.
Plutarch, Lycurgos

Lykurgos… He convinced his countrymen of the necessity of making the whole country the middle property and of redistributing the land in order to eradicate imbecility, jealousy, stinginess, ostentation, and the more profound and destructive diseases of society, namely, wealth and poverty. Everyone would be equal in subsistence, and no one would have any superiority but virtue… Because, in fact, there was no separation and inequality between people. Separation and inequality could only be between bad behavior and good behavior…
Plutarch, Lycurgos

If a man or an oligarchy or a democracy, who indulges in pleasure and passion and attacks them with greed, rules the city or the individual with a spirit that cannot hold anything by suffering from an incurable and incurable disease, it will disregard the law, and in this case… There is no way out.
Plato, Nomoi

SKIN

It is pointless for us to love or hate someone by their appearance; We should judge him by his work.
Lysias, Hyper Mantitheou

The beauty of the body would be similar to the beauty of an animal, if it were not for the mind.
Democritus, Fragment

FRIENDSHIP

Know thyself. Go slowly to the feasts of your friends, and run to their calamities.
Khilon of Sparta

Stay the same way in your unlucky times with your friends as you are in your lucky days.
Periandros of Korinthos

If you are going to help your friends, do it in time, and after their affairs have been utterly spoiled, you have tried to give advice.
What does it do?
Aisopos

Unity of thought creates friendship.
Democritus

Make friends of only the virtuous among men…
Pythagoras, Khrysa Epe

To be excited with righteous anger to protect one’s friends is only worthy of true friends…
Euripides, Heracles

Does the unlucky man have a friend?
Euripides, Heracles

A good man in a high position should not change his manners, but should act more faithfully towards his friends when he is able to help them, since he is prosperous.
Euripides, Iphigeneia he en Aulidi

In a difficult problem, a faithful person is as valuable as gold and silver.
Theognis

It is easier to protect yourself from an enemy than from a friend.
Alkmeon

Honest and good friend, the best of all acquired possessions.
Xenophon, Apomnemoneumata

Only the friendships of virtuous men are free from dishonesty.
Aristotle, Ethic Nicomacheia

It is in the nature of a small number of people to appreciate their happy friends without envy.
Aiskhylos, Agamemnon

Go to your friends sooner when they are very unhappy, because they are happy.
Sparta’h Khilon (Diogenes Laertios, Bioi kai Gnomai Ton Eudokimon Philosophon, I, )

There are many people who protect themselves from their enemies, but without realizing it, they fall into the hands of friends who are more dangerous than the enemy.
Aisopos

Don’t let the ridicule of your friends prevent you from changing your life. Would you prefer to be in disgrace and ingratiate yourself with them, or to fall out of favor with them as virtuous?
Epictetus

Wish not to test your friends! Otherwise, you will see that they are nothing more than a shadow.
Philemon, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

He was an Athenian who could have obtained many riches and honorable positions by betraying Dion, but did not do so.
Because it was not a vulgar friendship that bound these two people, but a friendship that came from a peer education. A wise man is a soul and vu
Cut should not rely on their intimacy, but only on this kind of friendship.
Plato, Epistolai

One day, when you see that your fortunes have changed, you will ask to have a man like me by your side.
Plato, EpistolaU od

If a man you have just met shows you more friendship than his friends of forty years, do not be deceived by his love. Know that when your friendship progresses, if he meets others, he will leave you and laugh in their faces.
Aisopos

Have you betrayed friendship, do not trust that those with whom you are playing with are powerless to take vengeance; Even if they can’t do anything, the gods won’t put that evil on your side.
Aisopos

EDUCATION

Ignorance, what a terrible disaster
Sophocles, [Anthologia Stobaiou]

The hopes of the educated are stronger than the wealth of those who have learned nothing.
Democritus

It is also possible that the young are smart and the old are foolish; It is not time that teaches thoughtfulness, but education and creation in its time.
Democritus

Spiritual training is a second sun for those who obtain it.
Heraclitus, Trailer

Lykurgos had the idea that the greatest and most beautiful work of the legislator was education.
Plutarch, Bioi paralleloU (Lykurgos)

Just as we see that bees dwell on all plants and get the best out of each one, so those who wish to cultivate themselves should make use of all the information, but choose the useful ones of all.
Isocrates, Pros Demonikon

When Aristotle was asked what was the difference between educated and uneducated man, he replied that it is the same as the difference between the living and the dead. He says that knowledge is an ornament in happy moments and a refuge in sad times.
Diogenes Laertios, Bioi kai Gnomai Ton Eudokimon Phitosophon

The foundations of virtue are inherent in man; But its processing is the work of education. The uneducated temperament is blind.
Plutarch, Ethica, A, B

Those who neglect their education fail to understand that the result is an inability to think properly.
Isocrates, Peri Eirenes

It’s much better to learn at an advanced age than to remain ignorant.
Cleobulos, [Anthologia Stobaiou]

There is only one favor: accurate information. And there is only one evil, and that is ignorance.
Socrates, (Diogenes Laertios, Bioi kai Gnomai Ton Eudokimon Philosophon, E,)

It is nothing but madness for you to want to teach what you neglected to learn.
Plato, Alcibiades

If those who know something make someone else as knowledgeable as they are, it shows that there is really knowledge in them.
Plato, Alcibiades

Don’t try to know everything so you don’t have to be ignorant about everything.
Democritus, Fragment

A physician goes to a patient and tells him: ‘You have malaria. Don’t eat anything today, drink only water’. The patient believes in him, thanks him and gives him his fee. The philosopher also says to an uncultured person: ‘There is no end to your desires. Your anxieties are vulgar. Your beliefs are false, they are false’. The uncultured walks out in a rage and says that he has been degraded. Where does this separation come from? Because the patient feels his pain, but the ignorant do not feel this pain…
Epictetus

I am not ashamed to learn, I research, I am grateful to those who answer my questions; I have never been ungrateful to anyone; I have always admitted that I am indebted to him who has taught me something; I have never claimed to have found what I have learned. I always praise the one who taught me what I didn’t know, I refer to him as a learned man, and I spread what I have learned all over the world.
Plato, Hippias Elatton

ENTERTAINMENT

Rest and entertainment are the necessities of life.
Aristotle, Ethika Nikhomakheia

Life without fun is like a long road without an inn.
Democritus (Anthologia Stobaiou)

The spring that breaks quickly and always stands tout… The soul needs a little fun so that it can think well when necessary.
Phaidros

CRITICISM

Theopompos’ likes are to be believed rather than his denigration; for he likes to disparage more than he likes to like.
Plutarch, Bioi Paralleloi (Lysandros-Sulla)

VIRTUE

Self-defeat is the most beautiful and triumphal of victories, and self-defeat is the ugliest and worst of all defeats.
Plato, Nomoi

Nor those shiny gold that mortals can scarcely find in their hopeless lives; neither jewellery, nor silver mattresses, which men so dear; nor the fields in the vast plains where the heavy ears end of their own; they cannot be as brilliant as the thoughts of virtuous men.
Plato, Epistolai

Is there anything better than doing good when you have the means and the strength?
Sophocles, Oidipoûs Tyrannosm

If only I could live long enough to respond to those who do me good or evil in the same way and more.
Xenophon, Anabasis

Remembering the good rather than the evil is beautiful, true, a holy and sweet duty.
Xenophon, Anabasis

Donate to the poor at once, don’t tell them to come tomorrow… Never be cruel to the poor.
Phokylides, Gnotnai

Don’t snatch bad things from your father.
Envious rather than pitiful
Thales of Miletus

Don’t do it yourself what you don’t tolerate in someone else.
Do not reproach the unfortunate; for they have incurred the wrath of the gods.
Forgiveness is more powerful than revenge.
Pittakos of Lesbos

Out of pride, a cruel man is born, and a pride, nourished by Ifrat and follies, sees itself on high. But its fate is to tumble into an endless abyss.
Sophocles, Oedipous Tyrannos

The best way to live is to strive for justice and other virtues.
Plato, Gorgias

Not to be ill-minded: Here is the greatest gift of God.
Aiskhylos, Agamemnon,

It befits people not to laugh at the calamities of others, but to pity them.
Those who rejoice in the disasters of even their relatives do not understand that fate is common to all, nor can they find joy in their homes.
Democritus

Praise neither the life that is bound by any head, nor the servanthood under difficulty.
Aiskhylos, Eumenides

Those who are noble from birth suffer from the shame of their children.
Euripides, Heracles

Let not one once take pleasure in injustice and disregard the law; No one can predict what the future will bring. Such a person has smashed his own chariot of fortune with his own hand.
Euripides, Heracles

We will love beauty, but we will not be flirtatious; We will love wisdom, but we will not be lax.
Thucydides, Historia

The path of virtue is long, steep; It is difficult to climb to the top, but once you get on it, no matter how difficult it is, everything becomes easier.
Hesiodos, Erga kai Hemerai

The path of virtue is long, steep; It is difficult to climb to the top, but once you get on it, no matter how difficult it is, everything becomes easier.
Hesiod, Erga kai Hemerai

Virtue is not only a theoretical, but also an experimental science. And it is imperative that the person who wishes to be virtuous not only learns the lessons that lead him to virtue, but also practices diligence and self-respect.
Mousonios, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

Just as the tree grows with fresh air and cool winds, so does virtue grow with wise and just people.
Pindaros, Nemeonikai

Stay away from the bad person all your life.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

Never do anything ugly, either alone or with anyone else. Be ashamed of yourself more than anyone else.
Pythagoras, Khrysa Epe

You have to be hardworking not only in words, but also in work.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

We must pay attention not only to how to live, but also to how to live with dignity.
Plato, Criton, B

Of what God has given you, you give to people in need.
Phokylides, Gnomai

When lies are preferred to the truth in life, people’s lives are filled with misery and suffering.
Aisopos

Respect the truth so much all your life that your words will be more credible than the vows of all other people.
Isocrates, Pros Niochlea

The truth is always reliable.
Sophocles, Antigone

He who will appear as a strong educator in the path of virtue is the one who takes the path of showing the right path and persuading by word, not the way of law and force. For he whom the law restrains from injustice is likely to secretly go wrong; A person who is made to believe in virtue is not expected to do anything wrong, either secretly or openly.
Democritus

Virtue accompanies those who have earned it into their old age, a better friend than wealth, and more useful than noble lineage.
Isocrates, Pros Demonikon

Virtue is the union of the irrational parts of the soul with logic.
Theages, (Anthologia, Stobaiou)

If someone comes out and says that someone has reproached you, do not try to refute the allegations. Answer only this: The one who said this certainly did not know any other shortcomings. If he knew, he wouldn’t just say that.
Epictetus

A man on the path of philosophy… He is alert to himself, as if he were against his most dangerous enemy, a man who is endlessly laying a trap for him.
Epictetus

We are like those who are skinny and skinny because they cannot eat even though they have many foods. We have good moral rules. But they are meant to talk, not to practice. Our actions belie our words. We’re not men. We want to play the role of philosophers. The burden is too heavy for us…
Epictetus

DEFERMENT

There is nothing more useful and more beautiful for people than order.
Xenophon, Oikonomikos

The warehouse of the one who sacrifices his work will not be filled, no good will come from the work you do not fall on, and the one who leaves his work unfinished will get into trouble.
Hesiod, Erga kai Hemerai

Tomorrow I’ll be a different kind of man!. Why don’t you start today? Start preparing for today, tomorrow, and if you do otherwise, you’ll leave it for tomorrow.
Epictetus

EQUALITY

When justice and equality prevail in everyone, life will be happy for us.
Solon, (Diogenes Laertios, Bioi kai Gnomai Ton Eudokimon Philosophon, I, )

Opt for equality and avoid greed.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

MARRIAGE

The greatest happiness in the world is that the equal finds his equal, and the person who lives by his labor will not try to marry moneyed noblemen.
Aiskhylos, Prometheus Desmotes

She had married not for sound reasons, but by indulging in the most vile, shameless moods and contemplations like a naïve young man.
Plutarch, Bioi Paralleloi, (Lysandros-Sulla)

Make weddings unpretentious.
Khilon the Spartan

He finds a son who is happy with the groom, and the one who is unhappy loses his daughter.
Democritus

Merry, the woman who, in my long absences, without fail, kept the honour of my bed, and bravely doted upon my home.
Ehripides, Heracles

The difficulty of meeting protected them from falling into excess, intemperance, their bodies did not lose their creativity, their love was renewed every day. They would not fall into the saturation and boredom brought about by the freedom of unhindered assembly. Since they always left without getting enough of each other, their wishes and love lasted longer.
Plutarch, Lycurgos

What can shine brighter in a woman’s heart than the joy of opening the doors wide to her husband, whom the gods have saved alive from the fight?
Aiskhylos, Agamemnon

DIFFERENCES

As everything seems to me, it is to me, and as it seems to you, it is to you. The wind is not cold for those who are cold, and it is not cold for those who are not cold.
Protagoras

PRIVACY

Don’t say you want to do it; If you don’t make it, they’ll laugh.
Lesbos’Iu Pittakos

A person told you a secret. And you think that it is honest, righteous, and kind to report your secrets. You’re a hoppa and an idiot…. He who tells you your secret often carries the mask of an honest man. This is not trusting. This is idleness. What he says in your ear, he also tells you what he stumbles upon. is like a barrel that has been pierced. He won’t be able to keep your secret, just as he can’t keep his own.
Epictetus

There are some people who think it is something from afar and you are afraid; Once you get to them, their nothingness becomes apparent.
Aisopos

Whatever you say to those who are cowards of nature is empty, you cannot strengthen their hearts.
Aisopos

BEAUTY

Hair makes the beautiful look more attractive and the ugly look more terrifying.
Plutarch, BioiParalleloi (Lysandros-Sulla)

To suggest that there is no difference between beauty and ugliness is to be ungrateful and naïve… This is the opinion of those who do not know the nature of things, and who think that if they hear of this otherness, they will be dragged away. It is not possible to get rid of beauty by ignoring it. It is necessary to know it and endure it.
Epictetus

INJUSTICE

God loves only the one who hates to do injustice.
Democritus

We should be more interested in what the people have to say about us, not what the people have to say, but what a person who can distinguish between what is just and what is unjust…
Plato, Criton

Truly the greatest and foremost of all evils is that one who has done injustice is not punished.
Plato, Gorgias

If each of us, thinking that the injustices that have occurred will turn against us, had willingly fought against the wrongdoer and if we had cooperated closely among ourselves as all citizens, perhaps the evil caused by the ulterior motives would not have become so rampant.
Menandros, [Anthologia Stobaiou]

ERRORS

Don’t you know that when the waves of the sea swell in stormy weather, the captain gets angry with the crews because of a small mistake? This is due to the fact that in such a situation, even a small flaw is enough to ruin everything.
Xenophon, Anabasis

Even the wisest person can make mistakes.
Aiskhylos, (Anthologia Stöbaiou)

It is not characteristic of the wise person to make the same mistake twice.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

Try not to cover up your mistakes with words, but to correct them with self-control.
Pythagoras, (Anthologia Stöbaiou)

It’s better to check your own mistakes than those of others.
Democritus (Anthologia Stobaiou)

A God-fearing, careful, and intelligent person is never wholly deceived in understanding the temperament of traitors; but he may suffer the fate of a master helmsman who has sunk in the waters, because he has properly sensed the storms, but has not measured their unexpected, great intensity.
Plato, Epistolai

Isn’t making a mistake also a result of ignorance, which is thinking you know what you don’t know?
Plato, Alcibiades

LIFE

What a sweet thing it is to live a long time; with life-enliventing hopes, with a heart sparkling with joy.
Aiskhyios, trometheus

Not everything in life goes the way people want.
Pausanias, Periegesis tes Hellados, II.

Alive… If you are fooled by the fact that every day is followed by the night without thinking about the pain, it can give you all the pleasures.
Euripides, Heracles

Even if it is unfounded, suspicion gnaws at the inside.
Sophocles, Oedipous Tyrannos

We cannot live as we want, we live as much as our means allow.
Menandros, Trailer

A man who has lost his former dignity becomes the amusement of even scoundrels, in the bad, painful days of fate.
Phaidros, I

I should boast that I have fame and glory; The days of the unfortunate pass more fearlessly.
Aisopos

In everything you do, think carefully about what will happen and what will come out of it before you embark on it, and then get to work. If you don’t follow this path, you will initially enjoy every move you make, because you have not planned what will come out of it. But in the end, when the disgrace reveals itself, you are left in shame.
Epictetus

If we want to go to sea, we need a good wind to do so. While we wait sadly for this wind, we often inquire what the weather is like. Oh, the north wind again. What to do with this north wind that is of no use to us? When will it blow from the west? My friend, the west wind will blow whenever it wants, or rather, whenever it pleases. We are only entitled to what we have, and we are obliged to accept all other things as they come before us.
Epictetus

We live in sorrow at every moment, and if they say the name of our master, we become a finished person. So what is a master? This is not a man, because man cannot be the master of man. This; death, life, lust, suffering, poverty or money… But if I am not afraid, I am perfectly free, and I have no master but myself.
Epictetus

Let’s look at how variable life is, so that we don’t think that we will finish every job successfully; Can the day be beautiful and not stormy?
Aisopos

A person should not be crazy about what happened when things went well and he rose, he should not forget the original, because this is not trust
World.
Aisopos

CALUMNY

Nothing has ever been more bitter and ugly than slander.
Kleanthes, (Anthologia Stobaiou),

A good person doesn’t even take seriously being slandered by immorals.
Democritus, Fragment

There are some people who are good, who are gentle, but when they are slandered, they will do any evil thing to get revenge
Aisopos

OLD AGE

Youth is my favorite age, but old age falls on my shoulders like a burden heavier than Aitne’s jagged peaks, drawing a thick veil over my lashes. I would not trade the splendor of an Asiatic empire or a palace full of gold for youth. But I hate old age, this horrible age that kills people. Let him go and throw himself into the waves; Oh, if only he had never visited the homes and cities of mortals, but had taken wings in an endless flight and disappeared into the skies.
Euripides, Heracles

I’m getting old, constantly learning a lot of things…
Solon, Trailer

It is not the young man who is worthy of envy, but the old man who has lived his life well; for man, who has not reached the climax of life, may be swept away by the tide of contradictory aims; However, the old man, who means that he has returned to the port, is there. He finds his blessings laid out before him
Epicurus

He who wants to know the truth is not an elder at any age.
Aiskhylos, Agamemnon

That old age that doesn’t run after us a little bit, chases us as it runs away.
Plato, Symposion

A living being… We say that from childhood to old age he always remains himself, but although he always bears the same name, he is never the same being, his hair, flesh, bones, blood, his whole body are constantly renewed on the one hand and die on the other. Not only the body changes, but also the soul. Nature, temperament, beliefs, desires, pleasures, troubles, anxieties, none of these remain the same in anyone, when one dies, a new one is born.
Plato, Symposion, Ode

HUMAN BEING

The measure of all things is man, just as those who exist exist and those who do not exist do not.
Protagoras

Know yourself, know what you are.
Protagoras

Man differs from other living beings in that he is the only comprehensible being, and even if others perceive it, they cannot comprehend it.
Alkmeon

It is not an easy task to be able to do what humanity requires. Man is a transient animal with a mind, and it is only by the intellect that he is distinguished from animals. When he moves away from reason, when he acts without reason, man disappears and the animal appears.
Epictetus

REQUESTS

Everything becomes difficult, it becomes boring, and if one wants to let go of one’s own creation, that which does not suit oneself.
Sophocles, Philoctetes

Let us satisfy the desires that will make a person happy when they are realized, and avoid those that will bring bad results.
Plato, Gorgias

Excessive desires are characteristic of not an adult person, but, on the contrary, a child.
Democritus, Fragment

WOMEN

And Zeus… When you create such a beautiful scourge…… immortal gods and mortal men marveled at this deceptive beauty, This deep, eternal source of magic that will seduce men. Because it has come from this source, in fact, she is the troublesome offspring of what we call women, she is the troublemaker of mortal men. Women can’t get used to poverty. It is always abundance that they miss. Just as the sons of bees take refuge, And always feed the fruitful honey, The wasps, whose work is evil. While the honeybees weave the white honeycombs every day until the sun goes down, the Others take refuge in the hives and feed on the labor of others. And so in the clouds he roared, And created the seed of women as troublemakers to mortal men, and with them women whose deeds are evil, and with whom he made evil against evil. Whosoever refrains from marrying, lest the trouble of a woman becomes, Is it possible that old age has come, And in his old days he is left without support; As long as he lives, he is not without bread, but when he dies, his relatives divide the burden. On the other hand, there is one who has the good fortune to marry
Even if it falls to a sane good woman, bad things happen to her as well as good things; Especially if he’s a crazy person, his wife
Throughout his life, he suffers and wears out of his life, and it is as if he has fallen into troubles without a cure.
Hesiod, Theogonia

Plug it in… Don’t be tempted by a woman. He has his eye on his barn, and he has trusted you, a woman, a thief.
Hesiod, Erga kai HemeraU

Women love men, in whatever way they can, whether they love them or not.
Phaidros, H

Only women’s hearts can quickly believe and be excited.
Aiskhylos, Agamemnon

FATE

Just as pebbles are buried in the mud of a river, people’s fortunes and purposes are shrouded by fate.
Pausanias, Periegesis tes Helladost

Man is a prisoner of fate. This is not to be opposed. It’s best to resign yourself to fate.
Sophocles, Oedipous Tyrannos

Valority mitigates the blows of fate.
Democritus

LAWS

If the law is weak in a state, if it is broken, I think the collapse is imminent; But if the law is above the rulers, and the rulers are its slaves, the state is ready for salvation and the gods. He gets all the blessings he has given…
Plato, Nomoi

If it is not perfectly reformed under appropriate conditions, there is hardly any possibility of improving the laws.
Plato, Epistolai

The law of the sane is God, and the law of the foolish is pleasure and delight.
Plato, Epistolai

Laws are made for the wise; not so that they do not commit injustice, but so that they do not suffer injustice.
Epicurus

A person who has no share of respect and law should be destroyed like an epidemic for the benefit of the state…
Protagoras

Whoever acts justly, the gods become his friends.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

The laws are strong because of you, and you are strong because of the laws. So you have to help the law as if you yourself have been wronged. You should also see the injustices done against the law as being done against yourself.
Demosthenes, Kata Meidia

Laws are the soul of the state. Just as the body dies when it is deprived of the soul, so the state is doomed if the laws are not enforced.
Demosthenes, [Anthologia Stobaiou]

A person who has never done injustice does not need a law.
Antiphanes, Trailer

Most of those who make laws that we call just, do not obey those laws themselves.
Aisopos

If there is justice in a state and the judiciaries follow the right, the little ones will live comfortably as well as the elders.
Aisopos

The law is the king of all men.
Pindaros, Trailer

FEAR

Don’t be afraid of anything… Then just as a horse has no terrible and crushing weapon against a horse, and a bee against a bee, no one can have a terrible and crushing weapon against you. Your desires and fears, to enslave you… Don’t you realize that, just like in a castle, there is an armed army that your masters nurture in your heart? Kick out this soldier! Hold your castle in your hands, your freedom has been restored…
Epictetus

That’s just the way it is; There are many things that we are afraid of when we first see them, but over time we get used to them and do not care at all.
Aisopos

EVIL

Whoever thinks of something bad about someone else will surely come back to him…
Pausanias, Periegesis tes Hellados,

Do not remedy evil with evil.
Herodotus, Historiai

Whoever kills will pay with his blood, and whoever commits what will be punished. As long as Zeus sits on his throne, the custom of finding eden among people will continue.
Aiskhylos, Agamemnon

We need to show our reaction and not back down in the face of the bad.
Menandros, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

Don’t be friends with bad people.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

It is equally dangerous to give a knife to the insane as it is to give power to the evil.
Iamblikhos, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

It is not easy to change one’s bad character.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

How can Kharilaos be a good man, even the wicked are not afraid of him.
Plutarch, Lycurgos

The cunning man saves himself from someone else’s back, let alone if he is in danger.
Phaidros

It is necessary to do as much evil as possible to your enemies and as good as possible to your friends. But (it should not be forgotten) that it is not possible to do evil to others without suffering the same evils ourselves.
Plato, Epistolai

Of all men, the worst and those who deserve the greatest punishment are those who dare to blame others for what they themselves are guilty of.
Isocrates, the Fairy Antidoseos

Do not be surprised that the wicked do not receive their punishment immediately, there is an order for everything.
Aisopos

If you ignore the evil of people and try to do good, you will cause them to do you even more evil.
Aisopos

THE ART OF SPEAKING

A lot of beauty is hidden in silence.
Sophocles, Aleadai, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

Hate to talk quickly, lest you be mistaken; Then comes regret.
Bias of Priene

Think about what you do. Listen a lot, speak on the spot.
Bias of Priene

The ability to give a good and beautiful discourse at a meeting, and to persuade the listeners, is not the least but the highest of gifts, and it is a very precious thing that ensures the salvation of oneself, one’s being, and one’s friends.
Plato, Hippias Meizon

Those who do not hold their tongues are exposed to many disasters.
Euripides, Âigeus, Fragment

The children had to speak succinctly and know how to shut up for a long time so that they could respond skillfully. Just as the seeds of those who go to extremes in love-making are often barren and powerless, so the words of those who indulge in intemperance are empty and meaningless.
Plutarch, Lycurgos

He who knows how to speak, also knows when to speak.
Plutarch, Lycurgos

It suits young people better to be silent than to speak.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi,

He who has the ability to speak wise words even though he is unjust is worthy of the greatest punishment. Because he believes that he can easily cover up injustice with beautiful words, he will always dare to do dastardly deeds…
Euripides, Medeia

It is not the words of the speaker that persuade the audience, but his character…
Menandros, (Plutarch, Ethica, c)

Be silent as much as you can, or say the inevitable words and say them in few words. You need to talk every now and then. In this case, don’t talk about vulgar topics… In particular, don’t take people you know for reproach, praise, and comparison. If you can, correct your friends’ speeches with your words and translate them into moral topics. If you’re among strangers, don’t open your mouth at all.
Epictetus

In speeches, as if falling from the roof and at length; Don’t talk about the battles you’ve fought and the dangers you’ve faced. Although you enjoy telling these things, others may not enjoy listening to them so much…
Epictetus

If there is an art of eloquence, there is also an art of understanding and listening.
Epictetus

HOSPITALITY

They say that a guest does not see a smiling face for more than a day.
Euripides, Heracles

HAPPINESS

He is happy to survive the storm that broke while he was at sea, to arrive at the port… Happy is the one who overcomes pain.
Euripides, Bakkhai

The prospects for the people are innumerable. Some bring the expected happiness, some deceive people. Whoever lives his day with joy, he is happy, he is happy.
Euripides, Bakkhai

In the hearths of the right people, the children of happiness are always beautiful.
Aiskhylos, Agamemnon

The best thing for a person is to spend life with as much joy as possible and as little trouble as possible.

It is necessary for a person to feel comfort in his soul by comparing his life with that of those who are worse off, and to consider himself happy by looking at their sufferings and thinking that he has a better situation and job than them.
Democritus

Disasters are the same for everyone. Life is a wheel, and happiness is variable.
Pbokylides, Gnomai

A person who does not feel pain for what he does not have, who rejoices in what he has, is happy…
Democritus

Don’t be arrogant, especially when you’re happy.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

It is not possible to live happily unless you are smart, honest and fair, and there is no way to be smart, honest and fair unless you are happy. A person who does not fulfill one of these conditions, for example, who does not live in an intelligent state, cannot live happily, even if he is honest and just.
Epicurus

You don’t know what life is before the last day comes. If a person has not been troubled until the end of his life, only then is he considered happy.
Sophocles, Oedipous Tyrannos

O you who have found happiness, do not think that you are happy before you die…
Euripides, Troades

ANGER

Don’t you understand, Prometheus, there are words that are good for the disease of anger, but on condition that you know when the heart will soften. A simmering anger is not addressed.
Aiskhylos, Prometheus Desmotes

Hold your anger, because anger has no reason, no logic.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

Those who are truly right should not be angry.
Euripides, Bakkhai

Don’t get angry and turn your back on the facts.
Euripides, Iphigeneia he en Aulidi

ADVICE

It is easy for those who are not in trouble to teach wisdom to the troubled.?
Aiskhylos, Prometheus Desmotes

Advise not the sweetest things, but the right things…
Solon, (Diogenes Laertios, Bioi kai Gnomai Ton kudokimon Philosophon

Is this foolishness to protect yourself, give advice to others?…
Phaidros, I

Some people… When asked for advice, they do not say what they think, but say the opposite of their feelings, trying to understand what kind of answer the counsel seeker likes.
Plato, Lakhes

SIZE

In everything it is necessary to follow the middle path.
Plutarch, Moralia

Nothing in excess makes a person happy.
Euripides, Medeia

By measure, I mean things that won’t upset you.
Pythagoras, Khrysa Epe

Lack of self-restraint is harmful. Be in moderation.
Thales of Miletus

To be able to achieve self-mastery is a great power and wealth…
Pythagoras, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

If the measure is set aside, and the small ship is given great sails, and the small body is given much food, and the man who cannot lift is given great authority, it will all be turned upside down.
Plato, Nomoi

It is necessary to suppress excessive laughter and tears, every man should exhort this to everyone; A person should try to behave in a respectable manner by hiding his joy and sorrow.
Plato, Nomoi

DEATH

Death is the fate of us all; When fate lays on his deathbed, even the gods do not take away his ominous death.
Homer, The Odyssey

What was the use of this brave heart, and could it drive away from him the black Death?
Homer, The Odyssey

Praise the dead for being lucky.
Khilon of Sparta

The dead forget their troubles and do not shed tears.
Euripides, Troades

The ornament of the dead is the brilliance of their great achievements.
Euripides, Heracles

Dying a glorious death is a blessing from the gods for humans.
Aiskhylos, Agamemnon

Don’t kill me prematurely. Because it is very sweet to watch the sunshine. Don’t force me to see the black soil.
Euripides, Iphigeneia he enAulidi

When death approaches, no one wants to die.
Euripides, Alcestis

Those who are born accept both life and death and leave children behind; Thus, death is reborn.
Heraclitus,

As birth is, so is death. The union of the soul with the body is in no way more perfect than its separation from the body.
Plato, Nomoi

In fact, people wait for death, which they never expected and did not believe would come.
Heraclitus,

Death, exile, and horrible-looking things like these; In particular, keep death in front of you at all times. Then you will not fall into vile worries and will not want anything with enthusiasm.
Epictetus

When the time comes, I will die. But I will die like a man who gives back what was given to him.
Epictetus

PRAISE

People who do not consider any interest above justice are worthy of praise.
Demosthenes, (Ânthologia Stobaiou)

Never praise yourself.
Menândros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

A worthless person deceives those who do not know with his fame, but he makes himself ridiculous to those who know, he becomes a mascara.
Phaidros

He who loves to be falsely praised suffers his punishment, regrets it, and is ashamed.
Phaidros

Alack! What should I do, if I do not say more than is necessary in praising thee, or if I do not praise thee enough, and do not lose thy favor? For if the righteous people who are praised are to be praised too much, they will be praised by them. they hate…
Euripides, Iphigeneia he en Aulidi

FREEDOM

The basis of happiness is freedom, and the basis of freedom is valor.
Thucydides, Historia

No one is free if he cannot impose himself on himself.
Pythagoras, [Anthologia Stobaiou]

Submission to necessity weighs heavily on people.
Euripides, Iphigeneia he en Aulidi

MONEY

What makes a coin more or less is not its quantity, but the skills of the man who collects and spends that money.
Xenophon, Anabasis

The benefit of money makes him value, and ultimately it gives rise to ambition to obtain it. While money is valued in state affairs, it cannot be looked upon as superfluous in individual affairs. It is impossible to believe that the money that is so important and demanded in public affairs is of no use to the person.
Plutarch, Bioi Paralleloi, (Lysandros-Sulla), XXI.

That the soul is immortal; that he would be interrogated when he was freed from the body; We must believe in those old sacred traditions that proclaim great punishments… A person who seeks wealth, who is poor in spirit, does not listen to such words; if he listened, his mind was to ridicule; that he went thither without shame, like a beast of prey, in order to find food and drink for himself, and to satisfy those illustrious pleasures of Aphrodite, who enslaves man; attacks here. He is a blind man who cannot see the impiety of his actions, the evil that his murders will bring. He always drags this impiety with him on his disgraceful journey, full of a thousand and one miseryes on earth and then underground.
Plato, Epistolai

I see that the more extensive and extravagant the wealth of individuals, even kings, the more sycophantic, the more dreadful slanderers arise, ready to share in the pernicious and degrading pleasures of the rich; This is the greatest evil of wealth and other blessings of power.
Platon, Epistolai

The benefit that money provides makes it valuable, and ultimately gives rise to the ambition to acquire it. While we see that money is valued in state affairs, it cannot be regarded as something unnecessary in individual affairs. It is impossible to believe that money, which is so important and desired in public affairs, is of no use to the individual.
Plutarch, Bioi Paralleloi, (Lysandros-Sulla), XXI.
We must believe in those ancient sacred traditions which declare that the soul is immortal, that when it is freed from the body it will be questioned, and that it will be subjected to great punishments… A man who pursues wealth and is poor in spirit does not listen to such words; if he does, it is only to mock; he attacks here and there, like a beast of prey, without shame, in order to find food and drink for himself and to satiate his dishonourable pleasures, which enslave man and take their name falsely from Aphrodite. He is blind, unable to see the impiety of his actions, the evil that his crimes will bring. He carries this ungodliness with him on his disgraceful journey through a thousand and one miseries on earth and then underground.
Plato, Epistolai
I see that the greater and more immoderate the wealth of men, even of kings, the more sycophants, the more horrible slanderers arise, ready to share in the pernicious and degrading pleasures of the rich; and this is the greatest evil that wealth and the other blessings of power produce.
Plato, Epistolai

There is no escape from destruction: For those who, dizzy with wealth, kick the holy temple of righteousness.
Aiskhylos, Agamemnon
The light of righteousness shines in houses with a low chimney and honours a clean life. But in gilded mansions where dirty hands rule, righteousness turns its eyes away… it does not respect gold, the false badge of its fame…
Aiskhylos, Agamemnon
No gain is as lasting and honourable as virtue.
Isocrates, Pros Demonikon
If a man combines wealth with virtue, then wealth is truly a great power.
Pindaros, Pythionikai V
Wealth is the servant of evil rather than good.
Isocrates, Pros Demonikon
Wealth is a cover for many evils.
Menandros, Trailer
If you have wealth, extend your hand to the poor.
Phokylides, Gnomai
The wealth of the miser is like the setting sun, which makes no living creature happy.
Socrates, (Anthologia Stobaiou)
I have never envied a very rich person who is not satisfied with any of the things he has ever had. Wealth is like a bad doctor who blinds us after he has received us with our good eyes.
Antiphanes, Anthologia Stobaiou),
The poor man lives in safety, the great rich man is always in danger.
Phaidros
The wider a man’s land, the greater his wealth, his worries, his cares.
Phaidros, Appendiz Perottina, A
The poor among the people look upon those who are rich and influential as gods.
Euripides, Iphigeneia he en Aulidi
It is important to remember that gold seekers dig a lot of earth but find very little gold.
Heraclitus
I’ve lost a part of your fortune. You consider that a loss you can’t be consoled for. But you don’t think you’ve lost anything when you give up your word, your cleanliness, your humility. But it is a foreign force, not in the hands of our will, that makes us lose wealth. It is no shame to be deprived of them or to lose them. As for our inner wealth, we lose it only because of our own wrongdoing. It is shameful and bitter not to have inner wealth, but it is even more shameful and bitter to lose it.
Epictetus
Nothing that a man does not bring with him from birth is his real property; every man comes naked and goes naked.
Aesopus

COMMON SENSE

Prudence is always the greatest virtue.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi
When you think, take the past as an example for the future.
Isocrates, Pros Demonikon
The beginning and foundation of prudence is self-control in eating and drinking.
Mousonios, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

HEALTH

If holy health forsakes a man, even good wisdom has no flavour.
Simonides, Trailer
Try to keep your food small and clean…
Pythagoras, Khrysa Epe
Those who eat the food they have prepared with the greed of animals grow fat in their own corners and spoil their souls and bodies. For they eat so much of whatever they wish that they are obliged, like the sick, to sleep long, to bathe in hot water, to rest, and on the Lord’s day to attend to their health…
Plutarch, Lykurgos
Overeating stagnates the sap of living beings, recoiling it back in depth and breadth; undereating, on the other hand, lightens the body and makes it lighter.
to grow freely and freely. Lack of food also helps beauty. For light bodies are more lithe, more graceful, while fat bodies are heavy and cumbersome.
Plutarch, Lykurgos
Oh, that disgusting and insatiable appetite that brings many troubles to people.
Homer, Odyssey
Food, drink, sleep, sexual intercourse, all in moderation.
Hippocrates, (Anthologia Stobaiou)
Diets to the limit of weakness are harmful; so, no doubt, are diets to the limit of satiety.
Hippocrates, Aphorismoi

People ask the gods for health in their prayers, not realising that they themselves have the possibility of health; they betray their health because of their extravagance and greed.
Democritus
The basis of health is the equivalence between wet and dry, cold and hot, bitter and sweet, and so on; the dominance of any one of these alone is the cause of disease. Health is a mixture of all these qualities in some measure.
Alkmeon
A healthy body needs neither physician nor help; it can stand on its own. As long as a man is sound, he is no friend of the physician because of his health, is he not?…
Plato, Lysis
If a patient who lives in a way that is detrimental to his health consults a physician, the physician should first advise him to change his lifestyle
If the patient listens, he should continue to look after him and give him advice, right? But if he does not listen, he who no longer advises such a person is, in my opinion, a true and true physician; he who does not do so is a coward and ignorant man.
Plato, Epistolai

ART

There is no sweeter consolation than art in the sad moments of human life. Because a person who concentrates his attention on art overcomes disasters without realising it.
Amphidos, (Anthologia Stobaiou)
Art is a refuge for people in times of sorrow.
Menandros, Gnomai Monostikhoi

CHANCE

Even bad luck eventually tires; the speed of the wind does not last forever. Even lucky people cannot remain lucky until the end. Everything in this world is bound to change and be reborn.
Euripides, Heracles
For a man whose luck was once the talk of the town, it is very bitter to be unlucky; a man who has seen nothing but misfortune since the day he was born does not suffer so much from his misfortune…
Euripides, Heracles
No human being is lucky in everything.
Aristophanes
That’s how it is; you try, you strive, you don’t get something, and then fortune comes to you.
Aisopos

SHIRR

The art of painting is a silent art of poetry, the art of poetry is a speaking art of painting…
Simonides
When love takes hold of a person, that person becomes a poet, even if he lacks a breath of poetry.
Plato, Symposion

FAME

Before one dies, one must leave behind a good reputation.
Plato, Phaidon

GODS

I will tell people that the gods have thought of this fate and all the others. If anyone does not agree with this, let him adhere to his own belief, and I shall adhere to this…
Sophocles, Aias,
Only he who honours the gods is wise. Keep your eyes always on them, even if they tell you to leave the path of right, go where they lead, nothing is bad if the gods are your guides.
Sophocles, Fragment
I learn what is to be learnt, I seek what is to be found, I ask the gods what is to be begged
Sophocles, Trailer
It is not right that we should expect help from the gods for such small things; if we are to call upon the gods, let us call upon them for great things.
Aesopus
If a man, without fear of Dike, without honouring the seat of the gods, without meaningless pride in word and deed, attacks the sacred things, let him be condemned to the disastrous fate that is the wages of his rebellion.
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos

If Zeus, whoever he may be, likes to be called by that name, I will not withhold it from him. I cannot find a like, though I have weighed everything. When a Zeus is before me, when I really want to get rid of the useless burden in my heart…
Aisldlos, Agamemnon, Ö
As the mirror is brighter, clearer, more luminous than the mirror of the eye, so God is clearer, more luminous than the best part of our soul…
Plato, Alcibiades
Neither earth, nor air, nor water can save a criminal whom the gods wish to smite.
Aesopus
A man is to God what a child is to a man.
Heraclitus
When the gods are summoned to help, man himself must take up the work.
Hippocrates
Let us, too, invoke the gods and pray to them, but let us also endeavour, as far as we are able, to be saved ourselves.
Aesopus
I prefer things that can be seen, heard and experienced.
Heraclitus
When you appear before kings and great men, remember that there is a greater king on high who sees and hears you and to whom you owe more.
Epictetus

EXPERIENCE

Bitter experiences are instructive…
Herodotus, Historiai

People of sound mind, once they have overcome a danger, will never be caught in it again.
Aisopos

See what has happened to me, and know how to protect yourself; they say that a child grows up by falling, at least grow up before you fall.
Plato, Symposion

Sickness teaches us to savour health, hunger teaches us to savour satiety, fatigue teaches us to savour rest.
Heraclitus

HOPE

The superior man, they say, always relies on hope; despair is for cowards.
Euripides, Heracles

I regard a man who warms himself with false hopes as insignificant,
Sophocles, Aias

LIE

False words never lead to anything.
Sophocles, (Plutarch, Ethika)

The only thing liars achieve is that they are not convincing even when they tell the truth.
Aesopus

Once a man is recognised for his bad order, even if he says the truth, his word is not believed.
Phaidros

OATH

Honour your oath…
Pythagoras, Khrysa Epe

There are many people who do not hesitate to say things that cannot be said, and to say them under oath, so that their own business may not be spoilt.
Aesopus

Oaths do not make man credible, but man can make oaths credible.
Aiskhylos, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

TIME

I know that the gods favour constant change. Everything, the strong, the weak, the advanced, the underdeveloped.they all submit to the vicissitudes of fortune. Those who are strong cannot remain in this state permanently. Trojan War. Mykenai, the city of those who led the Hellenes in the war, Ninive, the king’s palace of the Assyrians, the city that once dominated the Hellenes. Thebai, which had been the centre of the world; what is left of them?… Everything that belongs to human beings is such a coincidence and all of it
le comes and goes…
Pausanias, Periegesis tes Hellados

Again the sun has set, again darkness has fallen on the roads.
Homer, Odyssey

Living is like a daily vigil, and the length of life is like a single day, and at the end of that day we leave our place to those who come after us after we reach the light. There are those who do not live this life but prepare to live a second life with great effort. However, in the meantime, the time left to them is passing by. Time is the most precious of all things to be spent.
Antiphon

Not only great things, but even a grape or a fig does not ripen at once. If you say to me: ‘I want a fig now,’ I will reply: ‘My friend, it needs time. Wait for the grain to be born, then it will grow and ripen. Whereas you want the souls to ripen their fruits fully in one throw. Is this right?
Epictetus

TASTES

A constant and persistent interest in virtue and a prudent organisation of life will always bring true and more lasting pleasures.
Isocrates, Pros Demonikon

It is foolish to pursue every kind of pleasure at any cost, but it is also against nature to avoid every pleasure at any cost.
Plutarch, Ethika

He who is master of his pleasures is not he who abstains from them, but he who, though he tastes them, does not stray from the right path.
Aristippus, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

No virtue befits a man who has succumbed to carnal pleasures.
Xenophon

You should not prefer every pleasure, but only that which is for your own good.
Democritus, Fragment

We must avoid at all costs our uncontrolled and immoderate pleasures.
Iamblikhos, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

Abstain from pleasures that bring sorrow.
Solon, (Anthologia Stobaiou)

Some pleasures are good and some are bad. The good ones are useful and the bad ones are harmful. The good must be the aim of all our actions and we must do everything for this purpose.
Plato, Gorgias

No virtue befits a man who has succumbed to the pleasures of the flesh.
Xenophon, Apomnemoneumata