She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

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

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

She is best who is least spoken of among men, whether for good or evil.

I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man may be personally ever so well off, and yet if his country be ruined he must be ruined with it; whereas a flourishing commonwealth always affords chances of salvation to unfortunate individuals.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and in lands far from their own, where the column with its epitaph declares it, there is enshrined in every breast a record unwritten with no tablet to preserve it, except that of the heart.