How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

I do not pilfer victory.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.

At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

If my training goes well and according to plan I feel that I am capable of a top 8 finish in Athens. It will be a very difficult and technical course which will be to my advantage.

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.

I don't want the United States to be Athens on the Potomac.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.