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.

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

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

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.