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

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

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

Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

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.