I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.
What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.