Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
DEMOSTHENES
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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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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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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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There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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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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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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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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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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