Author of quotes: Alcibiades

Summoned from Sicily to Athens on a criminal charge, he [Alcibiades] fled away, saying that it is absurd to escape the sentence where you can escape from the court.

When he [Alcibiades] came one day to Pericles, he said, "He's busy considering how to give an account of the Athenians". Alcibiades said, "it would be Better, he thought, as not to give them any report."

The Alcibiades had a dog, amazingly beautiful, which cost him seventy minutes, and he was ordered to cut off her tail, the animal which served as the main decoration. Friends were dissatisfied with his act and told Alcibiades that all sorry for the dog and scold the owner, but he just smiled and said, "well, things work the way I want. And I want the Athenians were chatting about it - how else would they not say me worse, expelled!"