Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
DEMOSTHENESBeware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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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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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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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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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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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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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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The man who flies shall fight again.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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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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The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one’s self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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