Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
View quoteThere is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but e ...
View quoteSmall opportunities often presage great enterprises.
View quoteWe need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
View quoteDo you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, "How wel ...
View quoteIt is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments ...
View quoteIt is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
View quoteSmall opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
View quote“We have mistresses for pleasure, concubines to care for our daily body’s needs and wives to bea ...
View quote“Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself? for what we wish, we readily believe.”
View quote“As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their spee ...
View quote“What we wish, that we readily believe.”
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View quote“Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states”
View quote“[A story was told about Demosthenes and another orator. When the unnamed orator (understandably f ...
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