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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Demosthenes

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Affection Deceive Easy Subtle
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
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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Blessing Destroy Fortune Goodness
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
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
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
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

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