Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
... Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others.