Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
DEMOSTHENESOne believes in what one wants to believe in.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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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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To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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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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It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
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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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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
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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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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 man who flies shall fight again.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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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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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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