"For what you hold is, to speak somewhat plainly, a tyranny; to take it perhaps was wrong, but to let it go is unsafe."

"For if we are lovers of the beautiful, yet with economy, and lovers of wisdom, yet without softness, then we are unique."

"For it is a common fault in men to despise what they possess, and to desire what they have not."

"We are a city open to the world, and we never expel a foreigner from our midst."

"For where the awards for virtue are the greatest, there the best citizens are found."