Ancient Greece Quotes

• The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Rocks, World, Ascending

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.256

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• In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

  Nia Vardalos

  Mother, Daughter, Son

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• La única sabiduría verdadera consiste en saber que no sabes nada.

  Socrates

  Sabiduría, Filosofía

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• El más rico es el que se contenta con lo mínimo.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Greek, Contentment

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). "Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study"

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• El amor se compone de una sola alma que habita dos cuerpos.

  Aristotle

  Amor, Vida, Positivo

  Atribuido a Aristotle en Diogenes Laertius "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" traducido por C. D. Yonge y Henry G. Bohn (p. 188), 1853.

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• Arte Romántico: El despertar de los corazones - Bouguereau Al contacto del amor, todo el mundo se convierte en poeta.

  Plato

  Amor, San Valentín, Arte

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• Ve a decir a los espartanos, forastero de paso, que aquí obedientes a sus leyes yacemos.

  Steven Pressfield

  Lying, Passing By, Law

  Steven Pressfield (2000). "Puertas de fuego: Una novela épica de la batalla de las Termópilas", Random House

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• The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Ideas, America

  Discurso del presidente Obama y el primer ministro griego Alexis Tsipras en rueda de prensa conjunta, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. 15 de noviembre de 2016.

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• What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Battle, Stronger

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Witch of Portobello”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• ¿No es una sorprendente coincidencia que casi todo el mundo tenga la misma religión que sus padres? Y siempre resulta que es la religión correcta. Las religiones son cosa de familia. Si nos hubiéramos criado en la antigua Grecia, todos adoraríamos a Zeus y Apolo. Si hubiéramos nacido vikingos adoraríamos a Wotan y Thor. ¿Cómo es posible? A través del adoctrinamiento infantil.

  Richard Dawkins

  Correr, Infancia, Padres

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• In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Mean, Eye

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• Al ver estas vasijas en el Museo Field, Alix [MacKenzie] y yo llegamos a la conclusión, tanto individual como colectivamente, de que las vasijas que realmente nos interesaban eran las que la gente había utilizado en su vida cotidiana, y empezamos a pensar que, ya fuera en la antigua Grecia, en África, en Europa o donde fuera, las vasijas que la gente había utilizado en sus hogares eran las que nos entusiasmaban.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Medio, Hogar, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our moral character. In ancient Greece and Rome, ethical choices about food were considered at least as significant as ethical choices about sex.

  Peter Singer

  Hurt, Sex, Lying

  Peter Singer, Jim Mason (2007). “The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter”, p.3, Rodale

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• Ningún relato sobre el Renacimiento puede estar completo sin mencionar el intento de algunos eruditos italianos del siglo XV de reconciliar el cristianismo con la religión de la antigua Grecia.

  Walter Pater

  Italian, Renaissance, Ancient

  Walter Pater (2013). "El Renacimiento", p.22, Simon and Schuster.

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• In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

  Yorgos Papandreu

  Ancient, Greece

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• Las costumbres griegas, como el consumo de vino, eran consideradas dignas de imitación por otras culturas. Así, los barcos que transportaban el vino griego transportaban la civilización griega, distribuyéndola por todo el Mediterráneo y más allá, ánfora a ánfora. El vino desplazó a la cerveza y se convirtió en la bebida más civilizada y sofisticada, un estatus que ha mantenido desde entonces gracias a su asociación con los logros intelectuales de la Antigua Grecia.

  Tom Standage

  Beber, vino, cerveza

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• The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Opposites, Culture

  Alfred C. Kinsey (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”, p.660, Indiana University Press

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• Aprendí que, junto a los imponentes logros de las culturas de la antigua Grecia y China, existía la cultura de África, invisible y negada por los saqueadores imperialistas de la riqueza material africana.

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Diversity, Achievement

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.35, Beacon Press

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• Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.

  Rick Riordan

  Guy, Ancient, Starbucks

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• The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads — in the end — to the best within us.

  Jesse Owens

  País, Nueva York, Ciudades

  "People In America : Jesse Owens" by Barbara Dash, web.archive.org. June 7, 2002.

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• When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."

  Graham T. Allison

  War, Stress, Past

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• I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy: David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist. It's a nice escape from the world. As much as I do love real-life stories, they can often make you hurt in a way I'd rather not hurt.

  Henry Cavill

  Hurt, Real, Nice

  Entrevista con Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. 31 de mayo de 2013.

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• We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous expensive journey to consult the oracle at Delphi. Today, if you want guidance, all you have to do is unplug your ears.

  Margo Kaufman

  Journey, Long, Advice

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• But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Creativity, Rome

  "Do All Of Us Possess Genius?". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

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• In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

  Budd Schulberg

  Expression, Goes On, Ancient

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