“Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master”

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.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots – suspicion.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

My anxious self always melted in your arms, then. Now your grin from another screen telling me “its going to be okay” works just the same.

Anxiety is way louder than it sounds, I want to speak but i am short of breath.

Thoughts are just visitors passing through our minds, sometimes they stay awhile uninvited- anxiety.

Anxiety is so comfortable that people are more willing to live with it rather than willing to heal from it.

Moon, stars, and night sky. That’s how I kill my anxiousness.

I’ve always had a fear of endings, but it comes as relief to me that among all the dying things, I am one too.

Breathing is hard, my mind and heart both at war. This anxiety makes my living so hard!

Loneliness overflows you with anxiety and overthinking.