Ancient Greek Quotes

Ancient Greek Quote of the day

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics.

It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?