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

"We throw open our city to the world, and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing, although the eyes of an enemy may occasionally profit by our liberality; …"

"For you are angry with me, who have no hand in the matter, and with yourselves too, if I may say so, for assenting to my counsels and sharing in my errors."

"Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others so long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins t…"

"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."