Ancient Quote by Aristophanes

“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

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“The narrow policy of preserving, without any foreign mixture, the pure blood of the ancient citizens, had checked the fortune, and hastened the ruin,…

— Edward Gibbon

Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation…

— George Washington

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these…

— Christine Lagarde

And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.

— William Shakespeare

'Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people find a way around the LAWS!' PLATO 423 BC

— Andrew Guzaldo

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

— George Santayana

“Greek culture owed tremendous debt to the Aegean ... This civilization had grown old, and passed away centuries before the period of Greek learning…

— James John Courtenay

We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our…

— Sheldon B. Kopp

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

— Alcuin

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy,

— Aristotle