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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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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Author Harvest Mischief Sow Story
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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Action Greatness Man Success Tendency
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
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.
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Crack Fools Known Sound Wisdom
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
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
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

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

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