There are a lot of people who seem to believe that humans only started to become wise about the time they were born and that previous generations don’t have much to teach us. Not only is this untrue, but many human problems are so timeless that our ancestors, thousands of years ago, had already been grappling with them for countless generations. This could be said of many civilizations and it’s particularly true of the ancient Greeks, who have long been renowned for their wisdom and who lived in what we now consider to be the cradle of Western civilization. Here are 25 quotes from ancient Greece that are still relevant to our lives today.