We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

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

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.

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

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

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.

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