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.

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.

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

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

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again

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.