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It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.

Demosthenes

Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
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
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Dictatorship Enemy Freedom Opponent
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
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Ability Common Dangerous Man
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.

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