The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that… — Protagoras 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
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
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the… — Anonymous 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
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
“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
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
The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of… — Woodrow Wilson 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
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
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have… — Livy 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
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
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
Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would… — Moses Finley 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
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
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you. — Themistocles Copy Share Image
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague,… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
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