Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. — James Madison Copy Share Image
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ACT17.21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.” — Simonides Copy Share Image
The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Athenians were the first to lay aside their weapons, and to adopt an easier and more luxurious mode of life;” — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my… — Solon Copy Share Image
The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are… — Pericles Copy Share Image
Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
“The revolt in Asia Minor was snugged out in 494, and the Athenians realized that they had acquired a dangerous enemy. Darius… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
“We cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy; wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real… — Pericles Copy Share Image
Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the… — J. M. Robertson Copy Share Image
It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me. — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence,… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you. — Themistocles Copy Share Image