The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!