"Chorus: Let not thy love to man o'erleap the bounds Of reason, nor neglect thy wretched state: So my fond hope suggests thou shalt be free From these base chains, nor less in power than Jove."

"Μνήμην ἁπάντων, μουσομήτορ' ἐργάνην."

"Κέρδιστον εὖ φρονοῦντα μὴ φρονεῖν δοκεῖν."

"ὀργῆς νοσούσης εἰσὶν ἰατροὶ λόγοι"

"Ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐκ εἰ δυστυχῶ, τοῦδ' εἵνεκα θέλοιμ' ἂν ὡς πλείστοισι πημονὰς τυχεῖν."

"Πολλῷ γ' ἀμείνων τοὺς πέλας φρενοῦν ἔφυς ἢ σαυτόν. ἔργῳ κοὐ λόγῳ τεκμαίρομαι."

"Ἢ οὐκ οἶσθ' ἀκριβῶς ὢν περισσόφρων ὅτι γλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ ζημία προστρίβεται."

"Οὔκουν ἔμοιγε χρώμενος διδασκάλῳ πρὸς κέντρα κῶλον ἐκτενεῖς."

"Γίγνωσκε σαυτὸν καὶ μεθάρμοσαι τρόπους νέους. νέος γὰρ καὶ τύραννος ἐν θεοῖς."

"Ἐλαφρὸν ὅστις πημάτων ἔξω πόδα ἔχει παραινεῖν νουθετεῖν τε τοὺς κακῶς πράσσοντας."

"ἔνεστι γάρ πως τοῦτο τῇ τυραννίδι νόσημα, τοῖς φίλοισι μὴ πεποιθέναι."

"Τὴν πεπρωμένην δὲ χρὴ αἶσαν φέρειν ὡς ῥᾷστα, γιγνώσκονθ' ὅτι τὸ τῆς ἀνάγκης ἔστ' ἀδήριτον σθένος."

"Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea."

"Ἐλεύθερος γὰρ οὔτις ἐστὶ πλὴν Διός."

"Ἅπας δὲ τραχὺς ὅστις ἂν νέον κρατῇ."

""Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness."

"I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evil."

"Καὶ γλῶσσα τοξεύσασα μὴ τὰ καίρια, γένοιτο μύθου μῦθος ἂν θελκτήριος."

"Φύλακα πολυπόνων βροτῶν."

"Αἰόλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων κακά, πόνου δ᾽ ἴδοις ἂν οὐδαμοῦ ταὐτὸν πτερόν."

"Ὕβρις γὰρ ἐξανθοῦσ᾽ ἐκάρπωσεν στάχυν ἄτης, ὅθεν πάγκλαυτον ἐξαμᾷ θέρος."

"ὥσπερ γὰρ οἰκίας, οἶμαι, καὶ πλοίου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν τοιούτων τὰ κάτωθεν ἰσχυρότατ᾽ εἶναι δεῖ, οὕτω καὶ τῶν πράξεων τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τὰς ὑποθέσεις ἀληθεῖς καὶ δικαίας εἶναι προσήκει"

"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."

"Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!"

"Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue."

"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."

"No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

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

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

"Delivery, delivery, delivery."

"The easiest thing in the world is self-deceit; for every man believes what he wishes, though the reality is often different."

"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.""

"Demosthenes met war with war only because submitting to brute force can give but a debasing peace. The strong who hold all the rewards in their hands had no degrading attraction for him. At one stroke and for always he gave himself to that subtly inconsequential people — inconsequential because its yoked strength and weakness pulled against each other as they were alternately attracted by the fleeting flatteries it was eager to give and to receive. In the worst trials, respectful of the Athenian ideal to which he had consecrated his life, he remained immutably faithful to his City and to Hellas, through which the civilization that we glory in was enabled to live and flourish."

"Demosthenes would have saved his country had it consented to be saved."

"Of orators, if I must choose you any, it shall be Demosthenes, both for the argument he handles, and for that his eloquence is more proper to a statesman than Cicero's."