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Tag Name "Athenian" (8)

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Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you.
Plato
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In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
Alexander Hamilton
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To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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You make learning fun. Like a children’s book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women.
Richelle Mead
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I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes
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... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.
John F. Kennedy
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Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Plutarch
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The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.
Woodrow Wilson