Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
DEMOSTHENESHe who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
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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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Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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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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The man who flies shall fight again.
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What a man wishes, he will believe.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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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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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
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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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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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He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
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The fact speak for themselves.
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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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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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Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
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