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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

Demosthenes

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
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
Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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Deceive Easy One Liner
Clouds cannot cover secret places, nor denials conceal truth.
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Cloud Place Secret Truth
We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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Existence Money Need
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.
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Employment Engagement Follow Impossible Man Thinking
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Issues Judgement Light Past
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
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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Deal Greatness Oneself Thinking
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
What a man wishes, he will believe.
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Believe Himself Man
We believe whatever we want to believe.
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Believe Willing
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master

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