Athenians Quotes

Athenians Quote of the day

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.

So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses."

Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.