TEETEASER HOME : GREEK QUOTES

Most people can't point where Greece is on the map; some even believe that Greece is a thing of the past and now perhaps some other nation occupies the space that once was Greece. Though nothing of that is true, most of the people seem to know one thing: that Greece is somehow the place that democracy was introduced to the world and the place that born more philosophers and thinkers than any other place in this world. A small rather rocky peninsula in the lower Balkans, hundreds of small little islands and a cost line larger than the cost line of England, Greece still stands at the same place it was 2500 ago. During that time, for once more, East was clashing with West and strange new and radical ideas where born in the heads of a hand full of men. These men were destine to shape the way that the rest of the Western world would think, question, and examine God, man, and nature from that point and after. The Greek thinking is the base of all we know today for it paved the way of how we examine and seek the true answers to our questions.
Here is our selection of Greek quotes and slogans.

HERACLITUS "A Man's Character Is his Fate"	HERACLITUS "Much Learning Does Not Teach Understanding"	HERACLITUS A Hidden Connection Is Stronger than an Obvious one	HERACLITUS "The Road Up and The Road Down Is the Same"	HERACLITUS "All things come out of the One and the One out of all things."
ARISTOTLE "We make war that we might live in peace" How appropriate for our times.	ARISTOTLE "The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law" This applies to presidents and high officials too!	ARISTOTLE "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion and desire." ...so what motivates you?	DEMOSTHENES "Nothing is easier than self-deceipt. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true" This is very dangerous for men in power.	DEMOSTHENES "All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action"
EURIPIDES "Cleverness is not wisdom" Most people think because they are smart they are also wise.	EURIPIDES "Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor"	EURIPIDES "Among mortals second thoughts are wisest" You got that right!	EPICTETUS "Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens"	EPICTETUS "First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak"
EPICTETUS "One must not tie a ship to a single anchor, nor life to a single hope"	EPICURUS "Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little"	EPICURUS "If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: forthey are forever praying for evil against one another"	PLATO "Courage is Knowing what not to fear"	PLATO "You can easily forgive a child that is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light" Ant the light is truth.
PLATO "Ignorance is the root and the stem of every evil"	POLYBIUS "Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarhy and democracy into savage violence and chaos" No comment here.	PYTHAGORAS "Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion".	PYTHAGORAS "Virtue is Harmony" by Pythagoras.	SOCRATES "I know nothing ecxept the fact of my ignorance"
SOCRATES "Bad men live that they can eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live"	SOPHOCLES "There is point beyond which even justice becomes unjust"	SOPHOCLES “Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot”.	SOPHOCLES “What you cannot, enforce do not command”.	SOPHOCLES “War loves to seek its victims in the young”.
SOPHOCLES “It is terrible to speak well and be wrong”.	THUCYDIDES "The secret of happiness is freedom.The secret of freadom is courage"	THUCYDIDES "Justice will not come untill those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured"