As Themistocles answered Seriphian who was abusing him and saying that he was famous not for his own merits but because he was an Athenian: 'If you had been a native of my country or I of yours, neither of us would have been famous.'

No human thing is of serious importance.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other,…

But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the f…

In this industry, interest in you comes in waves, it's so tidal. And so I don't really want to jump on the first wave that comes along.

'Pain is temporary, glory...lasts forever!'