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

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.

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

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.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

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