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O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you! -- Alexander the Great
I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy, -- Aristotle
The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes. -- Simonides
It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me. -- Anaxagoras
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done. -- Demosthenes
We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it. -- Pericles
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you. -- Themistocles
This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left. -- Livy
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens. -- John Roberts
Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens. -- John Roberts
Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses. -- Plutarch
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not. -- Rita Mae Brown
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all. -- Protagoras
Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it. -- Plutarch
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus. -- Lactantius
So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.] -- Francois Rabelais
The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city not less but more beautiful than I found it.' -- Richard Rogers
Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom from prejudice and freedom from stiffness, openness of mind, amiability of manners. -- Matthew Arnold
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats. -- James G. Frazer
The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except maybe a Cambridge or Oxford don, can call you out and prove you wrong. -- Steven Pressfield
Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me. -- Plutarch
Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them. -- Solon
Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out, believing that it would be a great war, and more memorable than any that had preceded it. -- Thucydides
... Athenians are addicted to innovation. They are daring beyond their judgment they toil on with little opportunity for enjoying, being ever engaged in getting, they were born into the world to take no rest themselves, and to give none to others. -- Thucydides

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