Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

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

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

The fact speak for themselves.

We believe whatever we want to believe.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.