The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

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

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

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

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.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.