Ancient Greek Philosophers

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.

—Aristotle

A friend is a second self.

—Aristotle

The Law is Reason free from Passion.

—Aristotle

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

—Aristotle

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

—Aristotle

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

—Aristotle

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

—Aristotle

Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.

—Aristotle

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

—Aristotle

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

—Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

—Aristotle

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

—Aristotle

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

—Aristotle

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

—Aristotle

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

—Aristotle

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.

—Aristotle

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

—Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

—Aristotle

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

—Aristotle

It is in changing that we find purpose.

—Heraclitus

The good is the beautiful!

—Plato

It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

—Socrates

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

—Aristotle

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

—Heraclitus

Everything flows, nothing stands still.

—Heraclitus

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

—Heraclitus

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

—Heraclitus

The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.

—Heraclitus

War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.

—Heraclitus

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.

—Heraclitus