It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.

You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.

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.