Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'