You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honour and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.

It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.

In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.