"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 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."

"We are lovers of the beautiful, yet with economy."

"The admiration of the present and succeeding ages will be ours, since we have not shrunk from any toil or danger."

"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."