One believes in what one wants to believe in.
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.