If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.

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.

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.

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

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

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

Better die standing than live kneeling.