Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
The marketplace is democratic.
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.
She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.
To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it-that in a city and in an individual-is real strength.
As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.