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 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
... Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever… — Thucydides 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
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. — James Madison 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
“Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you...” — Anonymous 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
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
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. — John F. Kennedy 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
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the… — Rita Mae Brown 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
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it. — Pericles 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
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