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.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

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

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.