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

Demosthenes

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
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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Benefit Forget Man Remember
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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Anxiety Avoid Beware Master War Yourself
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
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
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
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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Advantage Existence Prevail
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Act Fools Greatness Rush Success
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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Appearance Goodness Greatness
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Goodness Reminder Reproach
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
The man who flies shall fight again.
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Fight File Man
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe; but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.
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Believe Consistency Easy Expectation State

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

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