I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
DEMOSTHENESEvery advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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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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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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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 man who flies shall fight again.
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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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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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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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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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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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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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