Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.