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.
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
What a man wishes, he will believe.
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.