Philo

“A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial”. –Philo

Pythagoras

“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil”. –Pythagoras

Galen

“The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn”. –Galen

Menander

“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can”. –Menander

Herodotus

“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons”. –Herodotus

Polybius

“When a state after having passed with safety through many and great dangers arrives at the higher degree of power, and possesses an entire and undisputed sovereignty, it is manifest that the long continuance of prosperity must give birth to costly and luxurious manners…” –Polybius

Diogenes

“The mob is the mother of tyrants”. –Diogenes

Democritus

“By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich”. –Democritus

Aristotle

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms”. –Aristotle

Æschylus

“I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease I spit on more than treachery”. –Æschylus

Arrian

“Our enemies are Medes and Persians; men who, for centuries, have lived soft and luxurious lives. We, of Macedon, for generations past, have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves”. –Arrian

Anaxagoras

“Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun, a hot rock”. –Anaxagoras