Those who render no service either by word or deed, who cannot help army or city or the people itself in time of need, ought to be stopped, even if they have riches in abundance, above all if they are insolent as well as inefficient.
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"I would have you know that, if you kill such a one as I am, you will injure yourselves more than you will injure me. Meletus and Anytus will not injure me: they cannot; for it is not in the nature of …"
"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
"I know that I know nothing."
"No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
From Xenophon's Memorabilia, I.2.59, discussing who should be allowed to speak or act in public.
Date: Early 4th century BC
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