Time is the wisest counselor of all.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Time is the wisest counselor of all.