Explore 272 quotes by people from Greece

Pericles. Quoted in "Pericles." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 18, sect. 2.

Pindar. The Complete Odes, translated by Anthony Verity. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Sophocles. "Oedipus at Colonus." The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Odeipus at Colonus, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2000.

Phaedrus and Babrius. Fables, translated by Ben Edwin Perry. Harvard University Press, 1965, bk. 4, fable 2.

Hippocrates. The Aphorisms. Classics of Medicine Library, 1982, sect. 1, pt. 6.

Pindar. The Complete Odes, translated by Anthony Verity. Oxford University Press, 2008, Nemean IV.

Aeschylus. Promethus Bound. Dover Publications, 1996.

Pythagoras. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 8, ch. 1, sect. 23.

Socrates. Quoted in Theaetetus, written by Plato, translated by John McDowell. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Aristophanes. "The Knights." The Birds and Other Plays, translated by Alan H. Sommerstein. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Pindar. The Complete Odes, translated by Anthony Verity. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Plutarch. "Demetrius." Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Roman Lives, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Hippocrates. "A Regimen for Health." Hippocratic Writings, translated by J. Chadwick and W. N. Mann, et al. Penguin Classics, 1984.

Pindar. The Complete Odes, translated by Anthony Verity. Oxford University Press, 2008, pythian 3.

Plato. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 3, sect. 86.

Epicurus. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 10, ch. 1, sect. 140.