“Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.”

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.

The marketplace is democratic.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Life is so short, so beautiful. Don’t be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

Well, I’m clearly not ugly.