Aeschines

“Let us not be so ill-advised, men of Athens, as to throw away the great blessings we have in our hands in our eagerness for what we have not.”

“To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him is little better than a reproach.”

“For it is not the orator's words that I begrudge, but his actions, and his dispositions.”

“For a constitution is the soul of a state, and it has the same power as the mind in the body; for it is this that counsels concerning everything, and preserves what is good, and avoids what is disastrous.”

“There is a great difference between the judgment of the eyes and the judgment of the mind.”

“For I think that you should not judge results by the acts of the speaker, but the acts of the speaker by the results.”