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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Demosthenes

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
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Greatness Opportunity Small
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
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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Deal Freedom Goodness State
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.
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Action Himself Proud Spirit
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

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