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The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing.
“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Men who are capable of real action first make their plans and then go forward without hesitation while their enemies have still not made up their minds.
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