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

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.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.

One of my passions is to meet people and then imitate them.

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone – most people follow the crowd and imitate.

It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.