Poverty is no disgrace; the disgrace is in failing to struggle against it.

We do not regard the man who takes no interest in politics as one who minds his own business; we regard him as a useless character.

Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

-- Erasmus

Crates with only his wallet and tattered cloak laughed out his life jocosely, as if he had been always at a festival.

-- Crates of Thebes

Make haste slowly.

-- Augustus

I will not be led in triumph.

-- Cleopatra

Cleopatra, father-loving, the new goddess.

-- Cleopatra

Among the people there is no possession so esteemed as the state / yet there is no state in this world like one breath of good health.

-- Suleiman the Magnificent