Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
DEMOSTHENESOne believes in what one wants to believe in.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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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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I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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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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By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
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The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
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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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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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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
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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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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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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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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.
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