We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.