Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

In a word I claim that our city as a whole is an education to Greece.

I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

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.

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