A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

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.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

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

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

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

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.