“We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.”

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet not withstanding go out to meet it.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.

Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire.

Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.