Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth.

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

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

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.

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.