"Indeed, if I have any superiority, it is this: that I am better able than others to discern what is to be done, and to explain it."

"For what is honored is that which is useful."

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

"For the greatest glory is to be spoken of for one's virtues, and to be praised by one's fellow citizens."