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.

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

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

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

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.