GREEK BLOG #3: Famous Sayings By Ancient Greek Philosophers

  1. Hippocrates (460-360 BC). Ancient Greek doctor and father of medicine

“anything exaggerated is contrary to nature”

“most importantly do no harm”

2. Socrates (470-399 BC) Athenian philosopher and critic

“No one becomes evil willingly”

“By all means get married. If you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not you’ll become a philosopher”

3. Sophocles (496-406 BC) Dramatist and poet

“When disaster strikes more is bound to follow”

“Love cannot be conquered by warfare”

4.  Thucydides (460-397 BC), author of “The History of the Peloponnesian War” between Athens and Sparta

“Two things undermine the making of a correct decision: Haste and anger”

“The whole earth is a tomb to glorious men”

5. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) great orator

“Effort and hard work make everything possible”

“It is more difficult to hold than to acquire”

Compiled by Andrew Yiannakis, Ph.D., Research Professor,

University of New Mexico

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Andrew Yiannakis, Ph.D., is currently a Research Professor at the University of New Mexico (USA). He is also Professor Emeritus from the University of Connecticut where he taught the Sociology of Leisure, Tourism & Sport, as well as Research Methods and Computer Applications. He also holds the rank of 8th Dan in Traditional Jujutsu and a 6th Dan in Traditional Kodokan Judo. He is the Director of the Institute of Traditional Martial Arts at the University of New Mexico. He is also the Chair of the Traditional Jujutsu Committee of the USJJF. As an amateur historian, he has led several expeditions to Greece to conduct research at Thermopylae, and locate the path the Persians used in 480 BC to encircle, and defeat King Leonidas and the Greek allies. Prof. Yiannakis has published extensively in a number of areas.

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