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

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are. — Thucydides

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts. — William Shakespeare

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. — Robert A. Dahl

I will unbolt to you — William Shakespeare

Lad of Athens, faithful be
To thyself,
And Mystery -
All the rest is Perjury — Emily Dickinson

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

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England. — Bill Vaughan

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew. — Mark Zupan

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

I slept as the person in Plutarch that ran from Marathon to Athens without a pause would have slept if he had not fallen dead, the creature. — Patrick O'Brian

Female infanticide was as high in Mecca as in Constantinople, Athens, and Rome - a practice the Quran was to address directly and condemn repeatedly. — Lesley Hazleton

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. — Thucydides

Perhaps Zeus was king, but I was Spartan, a princess twice over, and queen of Athens besides. I knew my duty. And I would rule my own fate. — Amalia Carosella

And thence from Athens turn away our eyes
To seek new friends and stranger companies. — William Shakespeare

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

Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were. — Lord Byron

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again". — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics. — Allyson Felix

For I am certain, O men of Athens, that if I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself. — Plato

Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics. — Carly Patterson

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. — Camille Paglia

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds. — Alexander Pope

If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one. — Alcuin

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit. — Aristophanes

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension". — Moses Finley

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. — John Milton

We must go to Athens. — James Joyce

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. — Alexander The Great

The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world. — Cathy Freeman

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world. — Socrates