"For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, gr..."
- Thucydides
"I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles livedBut there's no money, too much spent today / I had a guest over and we sat together."
- Friedrich Hölderlin
"What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad."
- Mary Renault