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.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

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

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

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.

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.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.