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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

Demosthenes

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
By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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Excellence Hard Work Persistence
One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Believe Oneself
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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Correct Ourselves Ready Way
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
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Beginning Enterprise Opportunity Small
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Believe Deceive Easy One Liner
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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God Image Justice Love Truth
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
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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Freedom Safety State
I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Myself Regret
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Accompany Action Empty Speech
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
What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Believe Willing
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
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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Consult End Wisdom

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