Ancient greek Quote by Anonymous

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life…

— Robert Kennedy

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

— Thucydides

“Every Greek, man, woman, and child, has to two Greeks inside. We even have technical terms for them. They are a part of us,…

— Louis de Bernières

“The Greeks would, as it were, devote festivals to all their passions and evil natural inclinations… they took these human, all too human aspects…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I…

— Plato

“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism, humanism, democracy—which…

— Caroline Alexander

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our…

— Friedrich Schiller

“Until the blood from my pen runs dry, I shall worship the Greek body, the Greek mind, and the Greek soul. Until my tears…

— Pietros Maneos

“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying…

— Donna Tartt

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I…

— Socrates

When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of…

— John Arbuthnot

“The ancient Greeks who created the magnificent sculptures and structures were the same people who could be utterly cruel and barbaric.”

— Julia Vickers