Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

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.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

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.

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.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

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.