Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
The saying, "Practice is everything," is Periander's.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.
Democracy is better than tyranny.
He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in seeking succor meets with ruin.