Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

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

I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.

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

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