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.
DEMOSTHENESHe 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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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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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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The fact speak for themselves.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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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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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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