Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

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

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

What a man wishes, he will believe.

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.