An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We do not regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs as harmless. We do not say that such a man 'minds his own business'. Rather we say he has no business here at all.

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

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

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

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

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.