Athenians Quote by Alexander the Great Download Open image “O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!” — Alexander the Great ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athenians Inspirational Please Pleasure Toil
“Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You make learning fun. Like a children’s book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women. — Richelle Mead 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 the city… — Richard Rogers 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
“Athens was ripped from their wealth and territory but their culture still lived on. This now engraved upon your memory, what decision shall you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism, humanism, democracy—which… — Caroline Alexander Copy Share Image
“How you, O Athenians, have been affected by my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that they almost made me forget who I… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Unlike at the Academy or the Lyceum, women, some of them concubines and mistresses, as well as a few slaves, joined the conversation; further, many of the students here had arrived without academic credentials in mathematics or music, de rigueur for entry to the other Athenian schools of higher learning. Everyone in the Garden radiated earnestness and good cheer. The… — Epicurus Copy Share
“We cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy; wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real disgrace of… — Pericles Copy Share Image
“apparently there was no reason now why a man should not do as he pleased, so long as he remained within the law. A… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I… — Plato Copy Share Image
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. { His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle }” — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well; — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory! — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife:… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except… — 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 sort of… — 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 they are… — 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 from prejudice… — 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 affections, captivates… — 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 who studied… — 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 non-punishment of… — 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 enterprise of… — 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 the great… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
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