Collection of ancient Greek proverbs, popular sayings and sayings in Greece translated into Italian, as testimony to the wisdom of this people of ancient tradition.
Greek idioms
- Pay attention to your enemies, because they are the first to discover your mistakes.
- A dry bramble cannot be folded.
- Like a god it seems to me that man.
- Bread after bread is also good.
- Man is a miniature world.
- But you don't have to decide on the altar.
- There are many extraordinary things, but there is nothing more extraordinary than man.
- Listen to who has four ears.
- The day sees the actions of the night and laughs.
- A bad man lives long.
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- Listen to the words that come from the heart.
- The ant also has its anger.
- The beginning of wisdom is silence.
- Habit creates almost second nature.
- Facts are fruits, words are leaves.
- The fool understands himself by words, the vessel by sound.
- Wait for the wisest of all the councilors, the weather.
- They asked for buckets and refused tubs.
- Where anger sows, you reap repentance.
- It is not possible to stop a large stone when it has been released from the hand, nor a speech when it has come out of the tongue.
- Many tricks know the fox, only one, but large, the hedgehog.
- A wolf could marry a sheep before certain things happen.
- The chatter, which many people propagate, never perishes completely.
- Empty vessels make a lot of noise.
Greek sayings
- Laziness is the mother of all evils.
- Better to listen than to talk a lot.
- Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.
- An inappropriate love is no different from hatred.
- Committing the same sin twice is not a sign of wisdom.
- A fish starts to stink from the head.
- Hell, useless to the wise, is necessary for the senseless plebs.
- A flock without a shepherd risks becoming food for wolves.
- If you say what you want, you have to listen in response to what you don't want.
- The eyes are the abode of shame.
- Whoever stops being a friend has never been.
- The tongue for a man is a sharper weapon than the sword.
- A heart that loves is always young.
- Right reasoning takes more grip than sturdy hands.
- You can learn the truth from a child or a madman.
- It is the mind that sees and hears; everything else is deaf and blind.
- When the wine is inside, the words come out.
- When the fire sticks to your neighbor's house, yours is in danger.
- All important things to know are difficult to learn.
- In a moment, we can go from sublime to ridiculous.
- Of all the things that wisdom provides for a happy existence, the greatest is friendship.
- The drowning man clings to his own hair.
- Time is a doctor who heals all ills.
- A lucky person is a person who plants pebbles and collects potatoes.
Greek proverbs
- Water and fire can never mix.
- An orator without judgment is a horse without bridle.
- Favor received, gratitude over.
- Small opportunities are often the start of big businesses.
- The speech is seductive, but the speaker is unreliable.
- Silence is often the wisest of thoughts for man.
- If the lion skin is not enough, put on the fox skin.
- The wise man learns many things from his enemies.
- All men by nature tend to know.
- Power shows man.
- Better to learn late than not to do it at all.
- The centuries copy each other.
- Know yourself.
- Those who can't stand bad luck are really unlucky.
- Everything flows.
- Men make plans and the Gods smile.
- Live hidden.
- The wise man learns many things from his enemies.
- I know that I do not know.
- The illiterate person is like an un-carved piece of wood.
- As you wanted to prove.
- You learn by suffering.
- Life is short, art is long, the passing opportunity, the dangerous experiment.
- Man is by nature a political animal.
- Man is the measure of all things.