"We do not copy our neighbors, but are an example to them."

"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all."

"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 love of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and in old age it is not wealth, but honor, that gives us joy, and in old age it is not wealth, but honor, that gives us joy."

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."