Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.