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

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

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.

We believe whatever we want to believe.

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

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.