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

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.

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

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.

I’d say that, first and foremost, I’m a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

I never want to grow up.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

People flash back to pictures of me when I was 12 and say ‘Kylie’s so different,’ but how can I look the same from 12 -18?

I’m scared of the day I turn 19. I really don’t want to grow past 18.

When I’m, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.