You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals.