What a man wishes, he will believe.
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master