Quotes by Athenian Authors

[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

Pericles

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Pericles

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

Pericles

Nothing in excess.

Solon

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

Pericles

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

Solon

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.

Alcibiades