After school Quote by Richelle Mead

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

— Alexander the Great

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

— Diogenes

“Unlike at the Academy or the Lyceum, women, some of them concubines and mistresses, as well as a few slaves, joined the conversation; further,…

— Epicurus

“I sit up talking till daybreak with the young people and we have almost Athenian evenings, Athenian, I mean, only in their intellectual subtlety…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“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

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

— Anonymous

If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.

— Pericles

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

— Brian Lumley

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

— Themistocles

When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

— Alice Oswald

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

— Steven Pressfield