It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.

A stream of thoughts flows through one’s mind at a sacred-time.

That’s the trouble with memories: everything seems much more fantastical with a childhood lens to filter out the limitations of reality.

She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.

Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

When you know better you do better.

Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.

In the corridors of diplomacy people  gradually tend to lose their capacity to distinguish between what is important and what isn't.