299 Quotes About Greek

Life is Not a perpetual climb towards Greatness.For our family, ourselves, and friends,It is but sad Decay, so,Let every girl die after her Hebé (Ἥβη).And every man after his Aristeia(ἀριστεία).

Bad writers, and especially scientific, political and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones, and unnecessary words like expedite, ameliorate, predict, extraneous, deracinated, clandestine, sub-aqueous and hundreds of others constantly gain ground from their Anglo-Saxon opposite numbers.

If we do even one extra knot on our prayer rope, our guardian angel will record it; a few prayers or good thoughts will be stored up for later. Christ saves up all these things, and when the time comes for us to depart for the next life, we will take them and go to Christ.

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.

Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up!

if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like

Among the many subjects which interested me, I dwelt especially upon antiquity, for our own age has always repelled me, so that, had it not been for the love of those dear to me, I should have preferred to place myself in spirit in other ages, and consequently I delighted in history.

Why must we overlook what we are most likely able to do?

Σήμερα ο άναντρος, ο απείθαρχητος, ο ντελικάτος είναι χαμένος" "χτύπα, μη λυπάσαι τη ζωή σου, μη λυπάσαι τη ζωή του εχθρού σου, δε γεννήθηκες να χαίρεσαι και ν' αγαπάς γεννήθηκες για τ'άρματα. Ένας είναι ο Θεός σου: Εγώ, ο Πόλεμος.