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- I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.
- In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.
- The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Iphigenia in Tauris, circa 412 B.C.
- Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phoenix
- Haste in every business brings failures.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
- There are two sides to every question.
- Protagoras (485 BC - 421 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Law
- Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Decorum
- This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand. - Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Wasps, 422 B.C.
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