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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!

Demosthenes

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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Change Fortune High Man Prosperity State
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
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
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
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Believe Consistency Easy Expectation State
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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Existence Money Need
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
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
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.
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Injustice Possible Power
The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Necessary People Protection Talk
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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Guard Known Safety Suspicious
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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Believe Easy General Man True
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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Ourselves People Talk Time

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