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Re: fuagf post# 184583

Tuesday, 09/11/2012 10:50:31 PM

Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:50:31 PM

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Ancient Greece .. Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. - Archimedes

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. - Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle

Nature does nothing uselessly. - Aristotle The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. - Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle

Well begun is half done. - Aristotle

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. - Epicurus

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. - Epicurus

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. - Epicurus

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. - Plato

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

Only the dead have seen the end of the war. - Plato

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. - Plato

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. - Plato

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. - Plutarch

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. - Socrates

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. - Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. - Euripides

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. - Euripides

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. - Euripides

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles

Success is dependent on effort. - Sophocles

http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Quotes/

They didn't have everything right .. who does? Teabaggers/R&Rites think they have yet won't provide their details of
health and tax 'reforms', or even past years tax records .. the ancient Greeks sure had some good thinkers though.

It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”

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