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

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.

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.

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

Better die standing than live kneeling.

Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.