The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.

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

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

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