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The ancient Greeks are credited with paving the way for many of the concepts, inventions, and ideals we use today. When they weren’t telling the story of 300 (Battle of Thermopylae), and paving the way for every teenage boy in America to run around shirtless screaming, “This is Sparta!” they were also busy developing the early forms of mathematics, science, theatre, and philosophy. Here are ten Greek quotes and sayings that were truly “wise beyond their years”
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Antisthenes
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
Pythagoras
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Plato
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
Plutarch
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Aesop
He has the most who is most content with the least.
Diogenes
Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.
Homer
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides
