To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

A community is like the ones who govern it.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.

The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

The sinews of war are infinite money.