Control Quote by Plutarch

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

— Themistocles

“The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each individual man…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you...”

— Anonymous

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

— Diogenes

Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that…

— Solon

“There Pericles says that the essence of the Athenian democracy is that any citizen, regardless of class or profession, should be able to take…

— Thomas McEvilley

“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

“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

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The Athenians were the first to lay aside their weapons, and to adopt an easier and more luxurious mode of life;”

— Thucydides

“I thought of Pericles' speech to the families of the Athenian war dead, in which he said, "What you leave behind is not what…

— Eric Greitens

“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." [As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment ]”

— Socrates