Ancient Greek Philosophers

I call myself a peaceful warrior because the battles we fight are on the inside.

—Socrates

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

—Socrates

Silence, healing.

—Heraclitus

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

—Aristotle

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

—Aristotle

The only thing that is constant is change.

—Heraclitus

All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle.

—Heraclitus

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

—Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

—Socrates

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

—Heraclitus

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

—Plato

You should not honor men more than truth.

—Plato

When speaking of divine perfection, we signify that God is just and true and loving, the author of order, not disorder, of good, not evil.

We signify that he is justice, that he is truth, that he is love, that he is order, that he is the very progress of.

—Plato

To be even minded is the greatest virtue.

—Heraclitus

The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.

—Heraclitus

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

—Socrates

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

—Plato

Big results require big ambitions.

—Heraclitus

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

—Socrates

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

—Plato

Nothing endures but change.

—Heraclitus

Necessity is the mother of invention.

—Plato

Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain.

—Aristotle

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

—Aristotle

The sun is new each day.

—Heraclitus

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

—Socrates

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

—Plato

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice.

This is the only education which deserves the name.

—Plato

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

—Aristotle

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

—Aristotle