"For we are a city that is open to the world, and we never expel a foreigner from our midst, nor do we prevent anyone from learning or seeing anything, provided that by so doing he does not harm the st…"

"For the greatest penalty for not engaging in politics is to be governed by inferiors."

"Who makes the fairest show means most deceit."

"Wealth is with us rather an opportunity for action than a subject for boasting."

"For no country has ever yet been found that has proved equal to Athens in the hour of trial; and if our empire shall be overthrown, and we go down to defeat, our fall will be more glorious than that o…"