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

Demosthenes

We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Goodness Reminder Reproach
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.
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Action Himself Proud Spirit
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
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Different Favor Forget Himself Reminder Talk
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
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Friendship Himself Man Willing
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.
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Benefit Forget Man Remember

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

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