Family Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in…

— Louis Pasteur

At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to…

— George Papandreou

“Empathy, the Greeks believed, was a source of strength, not softness; the more you recognized yourself in others and connected with their distress, the…

— Christopher McDougall

“The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? This question is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If the Greeks were—as they were indeed—a brilliant people, they were individualistic to a fault, and concerned with the fate and fortune of themselves…

— Ernle Bradford

The wise men of antiquity, when they wished to make the whole world peaceful and happy, first put their own States into proper order.…

— Confucius

From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness…

— Confucius

The Greek side of my family are actually all really fair.

— Tulisa

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

— Thucydides

“...for the interests of rulers require that their subjects should be poor in spirit, and that there should be no strong bond of friendship…

— Plato

In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek. (I cannot…

— Edith Hamilton