The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.