Pericles

"Our Constitution is called a democracy because power is held not by a few but by the many."

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."

"We do not imitate, for we are a model to others."

"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."

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

"In a democracy, the poor have the advantage of numbers, while the wealthy have the advantage of money."

"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."

"Mighty indeed are the advantages which the gods grant those who dare."

"To shrink from action is the way of cowards."

"The true school of democracy is a sensitive appreciation of the duty of the majority toward the minority."

"Time is the judge of all things."

"We love beauty without extravagance and wisdom without weakness."

"For it is a shame to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of strength and beauty your body was meant to have."

"The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their deeds are recorded not only on stone over their native earth, but live on far away."

"One's own death is comparatively a small thing, but one's own decline in intelligence and wisdom is a tragedy."

"Our system of government does not copy the institutions of our neighbors. It is more the case of our being a model to others, than of our imitating anyone else."

"Happiness depends upon being free, and freedom depends upon being courageous."

"The strong do what they can and the weak endure what they must."

"Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time."

"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

"We are lovers of beauty yet simple in our tastes."

"We do not fear other men, we fear bad argument."

"For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial."

"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."

"Some peoples take from history a lesson of despair, others take inspiration."

"The strong are strong because we believe them to be."

"Ignorance is ruin."

"A man who gives himself up to the influence of each motive in turn is practically without character."

"Forgetting everything, rise and be born again."

"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."