Pericles — "For the greatest penalty for not engaging in politics is to be governed by infer…"

"For a man may be rich and yet be useful to the state, or he may be poor and yet be useful."

"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…"

"Who makes the fairest show means most deceit."

"The man who avoids public life is not merely idle, but useless."

"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; …"