It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

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

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

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.