It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

I seek to bring forth what you almost already know.

The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day.