“Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.”

Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.

Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

The fact speak for themselves.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.

We believe whatever we want to believe.

The man who flies shall fight again.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

All bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Fortune favors the bold.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.

A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.