As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
DEMOSTHENESSmall opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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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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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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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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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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We believe whatever we want to 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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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots – suspicion.
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It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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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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The fact speak for themselves.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
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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.
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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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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.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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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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