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

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

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.

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

In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.

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

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