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

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.

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

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

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

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.